Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
As Vasari's "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" was weaker on Venetian painters than Florentine ones, Ridolfi remains an important source for Venetian painting between the beginning of the Renaissance and his own day, although his accuracy is often doubted, and many of his numerous attributions, especially to Giorgione, are no longer accepted: according to Michael Hirst, "... the enormous number of paintings attributed to Giorgione by Ridolfi gravely weakens his authority".