Introduction -- Note on the Translation -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Giorgio Vasari -- The lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Written by Giorgio Vasari, Painter and Architect of the Arezzo, Revised and Extended by the Same, Along with Their portraits, and with the Addition of the %u2018lives%u2019 of Living Artists and Those Who Died between the Years 1550 and 1597 -- Part One -- Preface to the lives -- Cimabue -- Giotto -- Simone Martini -- Duccio -- Part Two -- Preface to Part Two -- Jacopo della Quercia -- Luca della Robbia -- Paolo Uccello -- Ghiberti -- Masaccio -- Filippo Brunelleschi -- Donatello -- Piero della Francesca -- Fra Angelico -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Antonello da Messina -- Fra Filippo Lippo -- Andrea del Castagno and Domenico Veneziano -- Domenico Ghirlandaio -- Sandro Botticelli -- Andrea del Verrocchio -- Mantegna -- Pinturicchio -- Perugino -- Luca Signorelli -- part Three -- Preface to Part Three -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Giorgione -- Raphael -- Properzia de%u2019 Rossi -- Rosso Fiorentino -- Giulio Romano -- Domenico Beccafumi -- Jacopo da Pontormo -- Michelangelo -- Titian -- The Author: To Artists of the Art of Design -- Explanatory Notes.