Giorgio Vasari

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Translated by George Bull

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Contents

Life of Leonardo da Vinci

Life of Fra Filippo Lippi

Life of Sandro Botticelli

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GIORGIO VASARI

Born 1511, Arezzo, Italy

Died 1574, Florence, Italy

This selection of biographies published in its original Italian in 1550. They are taken from Lives of the Artists (Volume I), Penguin Classics, 1987.

VASARI IN PENGUIN CLASSICS

Lives of the Artists (Volume I)

Lives of the Artists (Volume II)