Georgio Vasari’s primary vision from the arts was to see the musician as divinely inspired. This historic work identifies the lives of forty-five performers, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through personality sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of interactions. Despite some factual inaccuracies, Michelangelo praised Vasari for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari’s shrewd judgments and his exact pinpointing from the emotions aroused by specific works of art carry out his prediction that he’d have a worldwide influence on the annals of art.

Volume One covers the following artists: Cimabue, Giotto, Uccello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Alberti, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Correggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, aswell as additional notes on the performers.