Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Volume 5: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Volume 5, 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 Volume 5 by Giorgio Vasari. (Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere.) Read in English 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 from Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Volume 5
• Author credits: Giorgio Vasari
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 8:36:18

Catalogue topics

• art
• biography
• renaissance
• Italy
• sculpture
• art history
• painting
• architecture

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Andrea da Fiesole (Andrea Ferrucci) and other craftsmen of Fiesole — 16:20
2. 02 - Vincenzio da San Gimignano (Vincenzio Tamagni) and Timoteo da Urbino (Timoteo della Vite) — 16:38
3. 03 - Andrea dal Monte Sansovino (Andrea Contucci) — 26:47
4. 04 - Benedetto da Rovezzano — 10:03
5. 05 - Baccio da Montelupo and Raffaello, his son — 13:14
6. 06 - Lorenzo di Credi — 10:43
7. 07 - Lorenzetto and Boccaccino — 14:09
8. 08 - Baldassare Peruzzi — 29:35
9. 09 - Giovan Francesco Penni (called Il Fattore) and Pellegrino da Modena — 12:28
10. 10 - Andrea del Sarto, part 1 — 24:57
11. 11 - Andrea del Sarto, part 2 — 19:22
12. 12 - Andrea del Sarto, part 3 — 23:44
13. 13 - Andrea del Sarto, part 4 — 21:40
14. 14 - Madonna Properzia de' Rossi — 15:27
15. 15 - Alfonso Lombardi of Ferrara, Michelagnolo da Siena, Girolamo Santa Croce of Naples, and Dosso and Battista Dossi — 27:20
16. 16 - Giovanni Antonio Licinio of Pordenone and Other Painters of Friuli — 28:36
17. 17 - Giovanni Antonio Sogliani — 19:20
18. 18 - Girolamo da Treviso — 6:55
19. 19 - Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino — 22:39
20. 20 - Il Rosso, part 1 — 20:04
21. 21 - Il Rosso, part 2 — 18:00
22. 22 - Bartolommeo da Bagnacavallo and Other Painters of Romagna — 20:10
23. 23 - Franciabigio — 20:24
24. 24 - Morto da Feltro and Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini — 17:56

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