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 ...
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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
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