The lives of the artists : a selection / Giorgio Vasari; translated by George Bull. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1965 Bernardino Pintoricchio In his life of Bernardino Pintoricchio, born Bernardino di Benedeto di Biagio,Vasari is quite dismissive of the artist's talents. He has inserted him into the second part of the "Lives" with the artists Vasari believed to be getting nearer to the perfection of nature but not quite there, other artists in part two include Botticelli, Donatello …showed first 75 words of 1485 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1485 total…epts that his book was well received amongst his peers, and the need for a second edition suggests it was, then it could be said that Vasari's view of Pintorrichio was the general feeling of the day which was only 40 years after the death of the artist. Therefore it may be argued that Vasari's book documents how artists believed they had progressed in so short a period to what they deemed was perfection in art.