Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects [Volume 2 of 10]

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 2 of 10] contains biographies of the following artists: 1. Berna

2. Duccio

3. Antonio Viniziano

4. Jacopo di Casentino

5. Spinello Aretino

6. Gherardo Starnina

7. Lippo

8. Don Lorenzo Monaco

9. Taddeo Bartoli

10. Lorenzo di Bicci

11. Jacopo della Quercia (Jacopo della Fonte)

12. Niccol Aretino (Niccol d'Arezzo, or Niccol di Piero Lamberti)

13. Dello

14. Nanni D'Antonio di Banco

15. Luca Della Robbia

16. Paolo Uccello

17. Lorenzo Ghiberti (Lorenzo di Cione Ghiberti or Lorenzo di Bartoluccio Ghiberti)

18. Masolino da Panicale

19. Parri Spinelli

20. Masaccio

21. Filippo Brunelleschi (Filippo di Ser Brunellesco)

22. Donato, called Donatello

23. Michelozzo Michelozzi

24. Footnotes