Giorgio Vasari

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects [Volume 4 of 10] Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects [Volume 4 of 10] contains biographies of the following artists: 1. Filippo Lippi
2. Bernardino Pinturicchio
3. Francesco Francia
4. Pietro Perugino (Pietro Vannucci, or Pietro da Castel della Pieve)
5. Vittore Scarpaccia (Carpaccio), and Other Venetian and Lombard Painters
6. Jacopo, called L'Indaco
7. Luca Signorelli of Cortona (Luca da Cortona)
8. Leonardo da Vinci
9. Giorgione da Castelfranco
10. Antonio da Correggio
11. Piero di Cosimo
12. Bramante da Urbino
13. Fra Bartolommeo di San Marco (Baccio della Porta)
14. Mariotto Albertinelli
15. Raffaellino del Garbo
16. Torrigiano
17. Giuliano and Antonio da San Gallo
18. Raffaello da Urbino (Raffaello Sanzio)
19. Guglielmo da Marcilla (Guillaume de Marcillac, or The French Prior)
20. Simone del Pollaiolo, called Il Cronaca
21. Domenico Puligo