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The Lives of the Artists (more info)
Composed by: Giorgio Vasari
Neville Jason, reader


1. Preface to The Lives - 8:02
2. Cimabue c. 1240-1302? [1240-1300]* - 7:00
3. Giotto c. 1267-1337 [1276-1336] - 9:10
4. When the Pope had seen these works… - 6:10
5. Andrea Pisano c. 1290-1348/9 - 7:13
6. Luca Della Robbia 1399/1400-1482 [1388-?] - 6:26
7. Paolo Uccello 1396/7-1475 [1350-1432] - 11:52
8. Lorenzo Ghiberti 1378-1455 - 5:46
9. Donatello and Filippo, when they perceived… - 7:39
10. Masaccio 1401-1428 [?-1443] - 5:54
11. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377-1446 - 3:42

The Lives of the Artists (more info)
Composed by: Giorgio Vasari
Neville Jason, reader


1. Brunelleschi: Filippo was born in the year 1377 - 7:26
2. On his arrival, the wardens of S. Maria… - 8:48
3. It then occurred to Filippo that he would… - 7:40
4. The murmurers had now been silenced… - 6:08
5. Donatello 1386?-1466 [1383-1466] - 11:08
6. Piero della Francesca c. 1410/20-1492 - 5:25
7. Fra Angelico c. 1410/20-1492 [1387-1455] - 6:10
8. Antonello da Messina c. 1430-1479 - 4:57
9. Fra Filippo Lippi c. 1406-1469 [1381-1438] - 7:24
10. Jacopo, c. 1400-1470/71, Gentile 1429?-1507 and Giovanni Bellini c. 1430/40-1516 - 8:23
11. Sandro Botticelli 1444/5-1510 [1437-1515] - 5:55

The Lives of the Artists (more info)
Composed by: Giorgio Vasari
Neville Jason, reader


1. Andrea Verrocchio c. 1435-1488 - 7:38
2. Andrea Mantegna 1431-1506 [1451-1517] - 5:16
3. Luca Signorelli 1441?-1523 [1439-1521] - 4:38
4. Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 - 7:11
5. He afterwards devoted even greater care to… - 6:08
6. Giorgione 1476/8-1510 [1470-1511] - 4:25
7. Piero di Cosimo c.1462-1521? [1441-1521] - 5:40
8. Bramante 1444-1514 - 7:38
9. Fra Bartolommeo 1472/5-1517 [1469-1517] - 8:52
10. While he was engaged in producing these… - 5:38
11. In his childhood Raphael imitated the style… - 6:30

The Lives of the Artists (more info)
Composed by: Giorgio Vasari
Neville Jason, reader


1. Andrea del Sarto 1486-1530 [1478-1520] - 4:39
2. At that time there was a sacristan… - 5:55
3. When Andrea left for France,… - 7:33
4. Rosso Fiorentino 1495-1540 [?-1541] - 9:09
5. Francesco Mazzuoli, called Parmigianino 1503-1540 [1504-1540] - 8:14
6. Albrecht Durer 1471-1528 - 8:08
7. Giulio Romano, prob.1499-1546 [1492-1546] - 9:26
8. Sebastiano del Piombo c. 1485-1547 [1475-1547] - 8:10
9. Jacopo da Pontormo 1494-1556 [1493-1558] - 8:44
10. By these and his other works Jacopo took… - 9:28

The Lives of the Artists (more info)
Composed by: Giorgio Vasari
Neville Jason, reader


1. Jacopo Tintoretto 1518-1594 - 3:16
2. Francesco de Salviati 1510-1563 - 6:27
3. Accordingly, they united to spread abroad… - 4:15
4. Michelangelo Buonarotti 1475-1564 - 10:01
5. Lorenzo's garden was full of antiquities… - 9:35
6. When the statue was finished,… - 11:41
7. After the Pope had returned to Rome… - 9:35
8. While Michelangelo was at Carrara… - 9:48
9. Michelangelo had already finished… - 10:00
10. I had returned to Florence to serve… - 4:47

The Lives of the Artists (more info)
Composed by: Giorgio Vasari
Neville Jason, reader


1. Michelangelo was employed by Paul IV… - 6:31
2. Michelangelo was devoted to the labours… - 4:32
3. Michelangelo enjoyed excellent health… - 6:29
4. Titian c. 1485-1576 [1480-?] - 6:09
5. The year that Andrea Gritti was appointed… - 4:39
6. Titian did for Queen Mary a Prometheus… - 3:31
7. Jacopo Sansovino 1486-1570 [1477-1570] - 6:51
8. The Florentine nation being at that time… - 5:38
9. Giorgio Vasari 1511-1574 - 10:26
10. But as I was thus winning honour, fame and… - 9:32
11. I left Rome in October 1546… - 9:26

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