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Le vite de' piv eccellenti pittori, scvltori, et architettori

Revised, expanded and illustrated version of the 1st ed. (Florence : Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550) · Vol. 1 comprises pts. 1 and 2. Pt. 3 is divided into "Primo volume" and "Secondo volume," contained respectively in physical vols. 2 and 3; both have added t.p.'s · Inner woodcut t.p. border incorporates Medici arms; the work is dedicated to Cosimo de' Medici (dedication from 1st ed. is reprinted along with the new one for this ed.). Woodcut port. of Vasari appears on [superscript pi]B4v, v. 1, over a repetition of the t.p. view of Florence; it is repeated at the beginning of his own life on 6D1v, v. 3. On leaf 2Q4r, v. 2, Vasari writes that he designed the 144 artists' ports. that illustrate most of the lives, while the blocks were cut by "Maestro Christofano." Mortimer writes that this could be either Christoforo Coriolano or Christoforo Criegher, but Coriolano is no longer considered a possibility; see article on Coriolano in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Giunti devices on t.p. and colophon of pt. 3, v. 1 and on colophon of pt. 3, v. 2. Head- and tailpieces, many of type ornaments. Historiated and foliated initials · Signatures, v. 1: [superscript pi]A-B [dagger]-[5 daggers] A-3T 3V².

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