Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects [Volume 3 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 3 of 10] contains biographies of the following artists: 1. Antonio Filarete and Simone

2. Giuliano da Maiano

3. Piero della Francesca

4. Fra Giovanni da Fiesole

5. Leon Batista Alberti

6. Lazzaro Vasari

7. Antonello da Messina

8. Alesso Baldovinetti

9. Vellano da Padova

10. Fra Filippo Lippi

11. Paolo Romano, Maestro Mino, and Chimenti Camicia

12. Andrea dal Castagno of Mugello and Domenico Viniziano

13. Gentile Da Fabriano and Vittore Pisanello of Verona

14. Pesello and Francesco Peselli

15. Benozzo Gozzoli

16. Francesco di Giorgio and Lorenzo Vecchietto

17. Galasso Ferrarese

18. Antonio and Bernardo Rossellino

19. Desiderio da Settignano

20. Mino da Fiesole

21. Lorenzo Costa

22. Ercole Ferrarese

23. Jacopo, Giovanni, and Gentile Bellini

24. Cosimo Rosselli

25. Cecca

26. Don Bartolommeo Della Gatta

27. Gherardo

28. Domenico Ghirlandajo

29. Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo

30. Sandro Botticelli

31. Benedetto da Maiano

32. Andrea Verrocchio

33. Andrea Mantegna