Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2, credited to Giorgio Vasari, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 by Giorgio Vasari. (Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere.) Read by LibriVox Volunteers The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to the Vite or the Lives. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2
• Author credits: Giorgio Vasari
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 8:24:25

Catalogue topics

• history
• art
• biography
• renaissance
• art history
• Italian literature
• italian art

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Berna — 7:59
2. 02 - Duccio — 6:30
3. 03 - Antonio Viniziano — 12:51
4. 04 - Jacopo di Casentino — 10:30
5. 05 - Spinello Aretino — 28:57
6. 06 - Gherardo Starnina — 8:27
7. 07 - Lippo — 7:40
8. 08 - Don Lorenzo Monaco — 10:36
9. 09 - Taddeo Bartoli — 8:24
10. 10 - Lorenzo di Bicci — 9:47
11. 11 - The Author's Preface to the Second Part — 22:31
12. 12 - Jacopo della Quercia (Jacopo della Fonte) — 14:03
13. 13 - Niccolò Aretino (Niccolò d'Arezzo or Niccolò di Piero Lamberti) — 10:08
14. 14 - Dello — 8:50
15. 15 - Nanni D'Antonio di Banco — 7:12
16. 16 - Luca della Robbia — 19:59
17. 17 - Paolo Uccello — 25:20
18. 18 - Lorenzo Ghiberti (Lorenzo di Cione Ghiberti or Lorenzo di Bartoluccio Ghiberti) Part 1 — 24:17
19. 19 - Lorenzo Ghiberti Part 2 — 28:26
20. 20 - Masolino da Panicale — 6:38
21. 21 - Parri Spinelli — 16:42
22. 22 - Masaccio — 17:48
23. 23 - Filippo Brunelleschi (Filippo di Ser Brunellesco) Part 1 — 32:31
24. 24 - Filippo Brunelleschi Part 2 — 33:00

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