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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) / Michelagnolo to the Flemings

Chapter 28: FOOTNOTES
By Giorgio Vasari
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The volume assembles detailed biographical sketches and critical descriptions of painters, sculptors, and architects, concentrating on figures from Michelagnolo through several Italian masters and notable Flemish practitioners. Each entry recounts career events, commissions, workshop practices, and anecdotal episodes while assessing stylistic features, techniques, and individual works; discussions range from sculptural method and compositional devices to patrons' roles and disputes over attribution. Illustrations and plates accompany many lives, and the text moves between narrative chronology, artistic analysis, and moral commentary on taste and artistic fame.

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FOOTNOTES

[1] 1534.

[2] Piacenza.

[3] Busybody, or Jack-of-all-Trades.

[4] Drum.

[5] Begarelli.

[6] See note on p. 132, vol. ii.

[7] Sammacchini.

[8] Priuli.

[9] Zuccati.

[10] After the death of Jacopo Sansovino in 1570, Vasari published a separate Life of him, containing an account of his death and other additional information. Such passages as contain information that is new or expressed differently from that of the Edition of 1568 will be found in the notes at the end of this Life.

[11] Via Flaminia.

[12] A "canna" is equal to about four braccia.

[13] Hunchback.

[14] The story runs that in the year 1533 Queen Maria attacked and destroyed the Castle of Folembrai, and that in the following year King Henry of France, out of revenge, destroyed the fortress of Binche in Upper Hainault, leaving on the ruined walls the words "Voilà Folembrai"; which in the Italian have been corrupted into "Vela fole Maria."

[15] See last line on p. 112.

[16] Hans Memling.

 

Transcriber's note:

Obvious printer's errors have been corrected.

Hyphenation and accentuation have been made consisstent. All other inconsistencies are as in the original.

The author's spelling has been retained.