Vasari on Technique Author:Giorgio Vasari Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INSERTED PLATES Specimens Of Stones Mentioned By Vasari. (Reproduction in colour of a drawing by the Editor.) Frontispiece. Por... more »trait Of Vasari, From The Edition Of 1568. Probably by a German artist called in Italy 'Cristoforo Coriolano.' Tail-piece to List of Illustrations. Plate I. Leo X With His Cardinals. Mural Painting by Vasari in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. (From a photograph by Alinari.) To face p. 17 Plate II. Principal Doorway At S. Maria Novella, Florence, showing the position of the inscribed porphyry tablet on the riser of the step. (From a photograph by Alinari.) To face p. 32 Plate III. Portrait In Porphyry Of Cosimo 'pater Patriae,' By Francesco Del Tadda, in the Magazines of the National Museum, Florence. (From a photograph by the Editor.) Unpublished. To face p. 34 Plate IV. Interior Of Grotto In Boboli Gardens, Florence, showing an unfinished statue ascribed to Michelangelo. (From a photograph by the Editor.) To face p. 90 Plate V. Portrait In Porphyry Of Leo X, By Francesco Del Tadda, in the Magazines of the National Museum, Florence. (From a photograph by the Editor.) Unpublished. To face p. 114 Plate VI. Salamander Carved In Travertine, on the Fagade of S. Luigi del Frances!, Rome. The work of a French artist ' Maestro Gian.1 (From a photograph by the Editor.) Unpublished. To face p. 132 Plate VII. Illustration Showing Process Of Piece-moulding In Plaster. (From the French Encyclopedic.) To face p. 160 Plate VIII. Engravings Illustrating The Process Of Casting IN Bronze. (From the French Encyclopedic.) To face p. 164 Plate IX. Statue Of S. Rocco Carved In Lime-wood, by a French artist ' Maestro Janni,1 in the Church of the Annunziata, Florence. (From a drawing by Robert J. Rose.) U...« less