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LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO
VASARI:

VOLUME V. ANDREA DA FIESOLE TO LORENZO LOTTO 1913

NEWLY TRANSLATED BY GASTON Du C. DE VERE. WITH FIVE HUNDRED
ILLUSTRATIONS: IN TEN VOLUMES

[Illustration: 1511-1574]

PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER TO THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED 7 GRAFTON
ST. LONDON, W. 1912-14




CONTENTS OF VOLUME V

                                                                    PAGE

    ANDREA DA FIESOLE [ANDREA FERRUCCI], AND OTHERS                    1

    VINCENZIO DA SAN GIMIGNANO [VINCENZIO TAMAGNI], AND TIMOTEO
      DA URBINO [TIMOTEO DELLA VITE]                                   9

    ANDREA DAL MONTE SANSOVINO [ANDREA CONTUCCI]                      19

    BENEDETTO DA ROVEZZANO                                            33

    BACCIO DA MONTELUPO, AND RAFFAELLO HIS SON                        39

    LORENZO DI CREDI                                                  47

    LORENZETTO AND BOCCACCINO                                         53

    BALDASSARRE PERUZZI                                               61

    GIOVAN FRANCESCO PENNI [CALLED IL FATTORE], AND PELLEGRINO
      DA MODENA                                                       75

    ANDREA DEL SARTO                                                  83

    MADONNA PROPERZIA DE' ROSSI                                      121

    ALFONSO LOMBARDI, MICHELAGNOLO DA SIENA, GIROLAMO SANTA
      CROCE, AND DOSSO AND BATTISTA DOSSI                            129

    GIOVANNI ANTONIO LICINIO OF PORDENONE, AND OTHERS                143

    GIOVANNI ANTONIO SOGLIANI                                        157

    GIROLAMO DA TREVISO                                              167

    POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO AND MATURINO                              173

    IL ROSSO                                                         187

    BARTOLOMMEO DA BAGNACAVALLO, AND OTHERS                          205

    FRANCIABIGIO [FRANCIA]                                           215

    MORTO DA FELTRO AND ANDREA DI COSIMO FELTRINI                    225

    MARCO CALAVRESE                                                  235

    FRANCESCO MAZZUOLI [PARMIGIANO]                                  241

    JACOPO PALMA [PALMA VECCHIO] AND LORENZO LOTTO                   257

    INDEX OF NAMES                                                   267




ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME V

PLATES IN COLOUR
                                                             FACING PAGE

  TIMOTEO DA URBINO (TIMOTEO DELLA VITE)
      A Muse
          Florence: Corsini Gallery                                   10

  LORENZO DI CREDI
      Venus
          Florence: Uffizi, 3452                                      48

  BERNARDINO DEL LUPINO (LUINI)
      S. Catharine borne to her Tomb by Angels
          Milan: Brera, 288                                           54

  ANDREA DEL SARTO
      Madonna dell' Arpie
          Florence: Uffizi, 1112                                      94

  DOSSO DOSSI
      A Nymph with a Satyr
          Florence: Pitti, 147                                       140

  FRANCIABIGIO (FRANCIA)
      Portrait of a Man
          Vienna: Prince Liechtenstein                               222

  LORENZO LOTTO
      The Triumph of Chastity
          Rome: Rospigliosi Gallery                                  258

  JACOPO PALMA (PALMA VECCHIO)
      S. Barbara
          Venice: S. Maria Formosa                                   260

  RONDINELLO (NICCOLO RONDINELLI)
      Madonna and Child
          Paris: Louvre, 1159                                        264


PLATES IN MONOCHROME

    ANDREA DA FIESOLE (ANDREA FERRUCCI)
        Font
            Pistoia: Duomo                                             6

    SILVIO COSINI (SILVIO DA FIESOLE)
        Tomb of Raffaele Maffei
            Volterra: S. Lino                                          8

    VINCENZIO DA SAN GIMIGNANO (VINCENZIO TAMAGNI)
        The Birth of the Virgin
            San Gimignano: S. Agostino, Cappella del S. Sacramento    12

    TIMOTEO DA URBINO (TIMOTEO DELLA VITE)
        Madonna and Saints, with a Child Angel
            Milan: Brera, 508                                         12

    TIMOTEO DA URBINO (TIMOTEO DELLA VITE)
        The Magdalene
            Bologna: Accademia, 204                                   16

    ANDREA DAL MONTE SANSOVINO (ANDREA CONTUCCI)
        Altar-piece
            Florence: S. Spirito                                      22

    ANDREA DAL MONTE SANSOVINO (ANDREA CONTUCCI)
        Tomb of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza
            Rome: S. Maria del Popolo                                 24

    ANDREA DAL MONTE SANSOVINO (ANDREA CONTUCCI)
        The Madonna and Child, with S. Anne
            Rome: S. Agostino                                         26

    BENEDETTO DA ROVEZZANO
        Tomb of Piero Soderini
            Florence: S. Maria del Carmine                            38

    BACCIO DA MONTELUPO
        S. John the Evangelist
            Florence: Or San Michele                                  42

    AGOSTINO BUSTI (IL BAMBAJA)
        Detail from the Tomb: Head of Gaston de Foix
            Milan: Brera                                              44

    RAFFAELLO DA MONTELUPO
        S. Damiano
            Florence: New Sacristy of S. Lorenzo                      44

    LORENZO DI CREDI
        Andrea Verrocchio
            Florence: Uffizi, 1163                                    50

    LORENZO DI CREDI
        Madonna and Child, with Saints
            Paris: Louvre, 1263                                       52

    LORENZO DI CREDI
        The Nativity
            Florence: Accademia, 92                                   52

    LORENZETTO
        Elijah
            Rome: S. Maria del Popolo, Chigi Chapel                   56

    LORENZETTO
        S. Peter
            Rome: Ponte S. Angelo                                     56

    BOCCACCINO
        Madonna and Child, with Saints
            Rome: Doria Gallery, 125                                  58

    BERNARDINO DEL LUPINO (LUINI)
        The Marriage of the Virgin
            Saronno: Santuario della Beata Vergine                    60

    BALDASSARRE PERUZZI
        Cupola of the Ponzetti Chapel
            Rome: S. Maria della Pace                                 64

    BALDASSARRE PERUZZI
        Palazzo della Farnesina
            Rome                                                      66

    BALDASSARRE PERUZZI
        Courtyard of Palazzo Massimi
            Rome                                                      70

    GIOVANNI FRANCESCO PENNI (IL FATTORE)
        The Baptism of Constantine
            Rome: The Vatican                                         78

    GAUDENZIO MILANESE (GAUDENZIO FERRARI)
        The Last Supper
            Milan: S. Maria della Passione                            80

    ANDREA DEL SARTO
        "Noli Me Tangere"
            Florence: Uffizi, 93                                      86

    ANDREA DEL SARTO
        The Last Supper
            Florence: S. Salvi                                        88

    ANDREA DEL SARTO
        The Arrival of the Magi
            Florence: SS. Annunziata                                  90

    ANDREA DEL SARTO
        Charity
            Paris: Louvre, 1514                                       98

    ANDREA DEL SARTO
        Caesar receiving the Tribute of Egypt
            Florence: Poggio a Caiano                                104

    ANDREA DEL SARTO
        Portrait of the Artist
            Florence: Uffizi, 280                                    112

    MADONNA PROPERZIA DE' ROSSI
        Two Angels (with The Assumption of the Virgin, after TRIBOLO)
            Bologna: S. Petronio                                     126

    ALFONSO LOMBARDI
        The Death of the Virgin
            Bologna: S. Maria della Vita                             134

    MICHELAGNOLO DA SIENA
        Tomb of Adrian VI
            Rome: S. Maria dell' Anima                               136

    GIROLAMO SANTA CROCE
        Madonna and Child, with SS. Peter and John
            Naples: Monte Oliveto                                    138

    DOSSO DOSSI
        Madonna and Child, with SS. George and Michael
            Modena: Pinacoteca, 437                                  140

    GIOVANNI ANTONIO LICINIO OF PORDENONE
        The Disputation of S. Catharine
            Piacenza: S. Maria di Campagna                           150

    GIOVANNI ANTONIO LICINIO OF PORDENONE
        The Adoration of the Magi
            Treviso: Duomo                                           152

    GIOVANNI ANTONIO SOGLIANI
        The Legend of S. Dominic
            Florence: S. Marco                                       162

    IL ROSSO
        Madonna and Child, with Saints
            Florence: Uffizi, 47                                     190

    IL ROSSO
        The Transfiguration
            Citta di Castello: Duomo                                 198

    BARTOLOMMEO DA BAGNACAVALLO
        The Holy Family, with Saints
            Bologna: Accademia, 133                                  208

    AMICO OF BOLOGNA (AMICO ASPERTINI)
        The Adoration
            Bologna: Pinacoteca, 297                                 210

    INNOCENZIO DA IMOLA
        The Marriage of S. Catharine
            Bologna: S. Giacomo Maggiore                             214

    FRANCIABIGIO (FRANCIA)
        The Marriage of the Virgin
            Florence: SS. Annunziata                                 218

    FRANCESCO MAZZUOLI (PARMIGIANO)
        The Marriage of S. Catharine
            Parma: Gallery, 192                                      246

    FRANCESCO MAZZUOLI (PARMIGIANO)
        Madonna and Child, with Saints
            Bologna: Accademia, 116                                  250

    JACOPO PALMA (PALMA VECCHIO)
        S. Sebastian
            Venice: S. Maria Formosa                                 260

    LORENZO LOTTO
        The Glorification of S. Nicholas
            Venice: S. Maria del Carmine                             262

    LORENZO LOTTO
        Andrea Odoni
            Hampton Court Palace                                     262

    RONDINELLO (NICCOLO RONDINELLI)
        Madonna and Child, with Saints
            Ravenna: Accademia                                       264

    FRANCESCO DA COTIGNOLA
        The Adoration of the Shepherds
            Ravenna: Accademia                                       266




CORRIGENDUM

P. 151, l. 13, _Vicenza_ is an error of the Italian text for Piacenza,
the church referred to being in the latter town




ANDREA DA FIESOLE




LIVES OF ANDREA DA FIESOLE

[_ANDREA FERRUCCI_]

SCULPTOR

AND OF OTHER CRAFTSMEN OF FIESOLE


Seeing that it is no less necessary for sculptors to have mastery over
their carving-tools than it is for him who practises painting to be able
to handle colours, it therefore happens that many who work very well in
clay prove to be unable to carry their labours to any sort of perfection
in marble; and some, on the contrary, work very well in marble, without
having any more knowledge of design than a certain instinct for a good
manner, I know not what, that they have in their minds, derived from the
imitation of certain things which please their judgment, and which their
imagination absorbs and proceeds to use for its own purposes. And it is
almost a marvel to see the manner in which some sculptors, without in
any way knowing how to draw on paper, nevertheless bring their works to
a fine and praiseworthy completion with their chisels. This was seen in
Andrea, a sculptor of Fiesole, the son of Piero di Marco Ferrucci, who
learnt the rudiments of sculpture in his earliest boyhood from Francesco
di Simone Ferrucci, another sculptor of Fiesole. And although at the
beginning he learnt only to carve foliage, yet little by little he
became so well practised in his work that it was not long before he set
himself to making figures; insomuch that, having a swift and resolute
hand, he executed his works in marble rather with a certain judgment and
skill derived from nature than with any knowledge of design.
Nevertheless, he afterwards gave a little more attention to art, when,
in the flower of his youth, he followed Michele Maini, likewise a
sculptor of Fiesole; which Michele made the S. Sebastian of marble in
the Minerva at Rome, which was so much praised in those days.

Andrea, then, having been summoned to work at Imola, built a chapel of
grey-stone, which was much extolled, in the Innocenti in that city.
After that work, he went to Naples at the invitation of Antonio di
Giorgio of Settignano, a very eminent engineer, and architect to King
Ferrante, with whom Antonio was in such credit, that he had charge not
only of all the buildings in that kingdom, but also of all the most
important affairs of State. On arriving in Naples, Andrea was set to
work, and he executed many things for that King in the Castello di San
Martino and in other parts of that city. Now Antonio died; and after the
King had caused him to be buried with obsequies suited rather to a royal
person than to an architect, and with twenty pairs of mourners following
him to the grave, Andrea, recognizing that this was no country for him,
departed from Naples and made his way back to Rome, where he stayed for
some time, attending to the studies of his art, and also to some work.

Afterwards, having returned to Tuscany, he built the marble chapel
containing the baptismal font in the Church of S. Jacopo at Pistoia, and
with much diligence executed the basin of that font, with all its
ornamentation. And on the main wall of the chapel he made two lifesize
figures in half-relief--namely, S. John baptizing Christ, a work
executed very well and with a beautiful manner. At the same time he made
some other little works, of which there is no need to make mention. I
must say, indeed, that although these things were wrought by Andrea
rather with the skill of his hand than with art, yet there may be
perceived in them a boldness and an excellence of taste worthy of great
praise. And, in truth, if such craftsmen had a thorough knowledge of
design united to their practised skill and judgment, they would vanquish
in excellence those who, drawing perfectly, only hack the marble when
they set themselves to work it, and toil at it painfully with a sorry
result, through not having practice and not knowing how to handle the
tools with the skill that is necessary.

After these works, Andrea executed a marble panel that was placed
exactly between the two flights of steps that ascend to the upper choir
in the Church of the Vescovado at Fiesole; in which panel he made three
figures in the round and some scenes in low-relief. And for S. Girolamo,
at Fiesole, he made the little marble panel that is built into the
middle of the church. Having come into repute by reason of the fame of
these works, Andrea was commissioned by the Wardens of Works of S. Maria
del Fiore, at the time when Cardinal Giulio de' Medici was governing
Florence, to make a statue of an Apostle four braccia in height; at that
time, I mean, when four other similar statues were allotted at one and
the same moment to four other masters--one to Benedetto da Maiano,
another to Jacopo Sansovino, a third to Baccio Bandinelli, and the
fourth to Michelagnolo Buonarroti; which statues were eventually to be
twelve in number, and were to be placed in that part of that magnificent
temple where there are the Apostles painted by the hand of Lorenzo di
Bicci. Andrea, then, executed his rather with fine skill and judgment
than with design; and he acquired thereby, if not as much praise as the
others, at least the name of a good and practised master. Wherefore he
was almost continually employed ever afterwards by the Wardens of Works
of that church; and he made the head of Marsilius Ficinus that is to be
seen therein, within the door that leads to the chapter-house. He made,
also, a marble fountain that was sent to the King of Hungary, which
brought him great honour; and by his hand was a marble tomb that was
sent, likewise, to Strigonia, a city of Hungary. In this tomb was a
Madonna, very well executed, with other figures; and in it was
afterwards laid to rest the body of the Cardinal of Strigonia. To
Volterra Andrea sent two Angels of marble in the round; and for Marco
del Nero, a Florentine, he made a lifesize Crucifix of wood, which is
now in the Church of S. Felicita at Florence. He made a smaller one for
the Company of the Assumption in Fiesole. Andrea also delighted in
architecture, and he was the master of Mangone, the stonecutter and
architect, who afterwards erected many palaces and other buildings in
Rome in a passing good manner.

In the end, having grown old, Andrea gave his attention only to mason's
work, like one who, being a modest and worthy person, loved a quiet
life more than anything else. He received from Madonna Antonia Vespucci
the commission for a tomb for her husband, Messer Antonio Strozzi; but
since he could not work much himself, the two Angels were made for him
by Maso Boscoli of Fiesole, his disciple, who afterwards executed many
works in Rome and elsewhere, and the Madonna was made by Silvio Cosini
of Fiesole, although it was not set into place immediately after it was
finished, which was in the year 1522, because Andrea died, and was
buried by the Company of the Scalzo in the Church of the Servi.

[Illustration: FONT

(_After_ Andrea da Fiesole [Andrea Ferrucci]. _Pistoia: Duomo_)

_Brogi_]

Silvio, when the said Madonna was set into place and the tomb of the
Strozzi completely finished, pursued the art of sculpture with
extraordinary zeal; wherefore he afterwards executed many works in a
graceful and beautiful manner,