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introduction to the lives
while reading it, shall perceive whence I have, as I best could, drawn my materials.[1]
- ↑ Vasari informs us, in the Life of Marc Antonio Raimondi, that these portraits, which first appeared in the edition of the Giunti, were drawn by himself and his pupils, and engraved on wood by Messer Cristofano, of Venice, by some called Coriolano. In a letter to Borghini, dated 1566, (Gaye, Carteggio medito d'Artisti, iii, 227,) Vasari speaks of his own portrait, which he had taken by means of a mirror, and given to this same Cristofano to engrave. Bottari supposed this master Cristofàno to have been a German.
