Excerpt from A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence: A Critical Catalogue, With Quotations From Vasari Still existed in the middle of the XVI century when Vasari published his Lives of the Painters. He describes some of the frescoes destroyed by his own hand with a minuteness of detail which proves them to have been well preserved. The whole sale destruction, not only of the paintings but of the architectural features of the ancient buildings (such as the tramezzi, which separated the monks from the lay worshippers), is due to Cosimo I., who seems to have had little sympathy with the Giottesque painters. The Lord Date as Catholic prince, writes Vasari, in mutation of the great King Solomon, was pleased to rebuild and to restore to better form and greater beauty the temples and Holy Churches of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.