Vasari, Giorgio

3 parts in 3 volumes, 4to (235 x 160mm.), both title-pages within woodcut border, full-page woodcut on verso of first title-page, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, woodcut portraits of artists (some frames left blank, that of Girolamo Genga in vol.3 with replacement printed caption pasted over), woodcut printer's device at the end of volumes 2 and 3, later calf with gilt fillet border, occasional foxing, rebacked, bindings rubbed, joints worn

Censimento 16 CNCE 48229; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 515

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Second, much expanded edition and the first illustrated edition of Vasari's collection of biographies of artists down to his own times; the final part contains additional lives from 1550 to 1567 that did not appear in the first edition, including Pontormo, Il Sodoma, Michelangelo and Titian. This edition was much improved through the work of the experienced scholar and editor Vincenzo Borghini over the eighteen years between the first and second editions; he suggested corrections and changes of emphasis for Vasari's original text, so that more focus was given to the works of art and their settings rather than the biographical details of men of low social standing.