Excerpt from Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 1: Edited and Annotated in the Light of Recent Discoveries<br><br>Vasari's lives are the most important contribution ever made to the history of Italian art, and no annotated Eng lish edition of them has appeared since the year 1850. This in itself is excuse enough for the present work. In 1885 a single volume of notes, by Dr. Richter, was added to the five-volume edition of Mrs. Foster's translation. But as these notes covered the entire series of Lives, necessarily but a modicum of the results of modern methods of study and research could be covered by them. The editors of the present edition have preferred to choose among biog raphies rather than to limit the number of the notes, be lieving that a relatively complete annotation of the most im portant Lives was desirable.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.