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The '''''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects''''', or ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'' as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect [[Giorgio Vasari]]. The '''''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects''''', or ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'' as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect [[Giorgio Vasari]].
 +== Contents ==
 +The ''Vite'' contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, and is also adopted as a sort of classical reference guide for their names, which are sometimes used in different ways. The following list respects the order of the book, as divided into its three parts. The book starts with a dedication to [[Cosimo de' Medici]] and a preface, and then starts with technical and background texts about architecture, sculpture, and painting. A second preface follows, introducing the actual "Vite" in parts 2 to 5. What follows is the complete list from the second (1568) edition. In a few cases, different very short biographies were given in one section.
 +
 +=== Part 2 ===
 +* [[Cimabue]]
 +* [[Arnolfo di Cambio|Arnolfo di Lapo]], with [[Bonnano Pisano|Bonnano]]
 +* [[Nicola Pisano]]
 +* [[Giovanni Pisano]]
 +* [[Andrea Tafi (artist)|Andrea Tafi]]
 +* [[Gaddo Gaddi]]
 +* [[Margaritone d'Arezzo|Margaritone]]
 +* [[Giotto di Bondone|Giotto]], with [[Puccio Capanna]]
 +* [[Agostino da Siena|Agostino]] and [[Agnolo da Siena|Agnolo]]
 +* [[Stefano di Giovanni|Stefano]] and [[Ugolino di Nerio|Ugolino]]
 +* [[Pietro Lorenzetti]] (Pietro Laurati)
 +* [[Andrea Pisano]]
 +* [[Buonamico Buffalmacco]]
 +* [[Ambrogio Lorenzetti]] (Ambruogio Laurati)
 +* [[Pietro Cavallini]]
 +* [[Simone Martini]] with [[Lippo Memmi]]
 +* [[Taddeo Gaddi]]
 +* [[Andrea Orcagna]] (Andrea di Cione)
 +* [[Giottino|Tomasso Fiorentino]]
 +* [[Giovanni da Ponte]]
 +* [[Agnolo Gaddi]]
 +* [[Barna da Siena|Berna Sanese]] (Barna da Siena)
 +* [[Duccio]]
 +* [[Antonio Veneziano (painter)|Antonio Viniziano]] (Antonio Veneziano)
 +* [[Jacopo di Casentino]]
 +* [[Spinello Aretino]]
 +* [[Gherardo Starnina]]
 +* [[Lippo Memmi|Lippo]]
 +* [[Lorenzo Monaco]]
 +* [[Taddeo Bartoli]]
 +* [[Lorenzo di Bicci]]
 +
 +=== Part 3 ===
 +* [[Jacopo della Quercia]]
 +* [[Niccolò di Piero Lamberti|Niccolo Aretino]] (Niccolò di Piero Lamberti)
 +* [[Dello di Niccolò Delli|Dello]] (Dello di Niccolò Delli)
 +* [[Nanni di Banco]]
 +* [[Luca della Robbia]]
 +* [[Paolo Uccello]]
 +* [[Lorenzo Ghiberti]]
 +* [[Masolino da Panicale]]
 +* [[Parri Spinelli]]
 +* [[Tommaso Masaccio|Masaccio]]
 +* [[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
 +* [[Donatello]]
 +* [[Michelozzo Michelozzi]]
 +* [[Antonio Filarete]] and [[Simone Ghini|Simone]] (Simone Ghini)
 +* [[Giuliano da Maiano]]
 +* [[Piero della Francesca]]
 +* [[Fra Angelico]]
 +* [[Leon Battista Alberti]]
 +* [[Lazaro Vasari]]
 +* [[Antonello da Messina]]
 +* [[Alessio Baldovinetti]]
 +* [[Bartolomeo Bellano|Vellano da Padova]] (Bartolomeo Bellano)
 +* [[Fra Filippo Lippi]]
 +* [[Paolo Romano]], [[Mino del Reame]], [[Chimenti Camicia]], and [[Baccio Pontelli]]
 +* [[Andrea del Castagno]]
 +* [[Domenico Veneziano]]
 +* [[Gentile da Fabriano]]
 +* [[Pisanello|Vittore Pisanello]]
 +* [[Francesco di Pesello|Pesello]] and [[Francesco Pesellino]]
 +* [[Benozzo Gozzoli]]
 +* [[Francesco di Giorgio]] and [[Vecchietta]] (Lorenzo di Pietro)
 +* [[Galasso Galassi|Galasso Ferrarese]]
 +* [[Antonio Rossellino]]
 +* [[Bernardo Rossellino]]
 +* [[Desiderio da Settignano]]
 +* [[Mino da Fiesole]]
 +* [[Lorenzo Costa]]
 +* [[Ercole Ferrarese]]
 +* [[Jacopo Bellini]]
 +* [[Giovanni Bellini]]
 +* [[Gentile Bellini]]
 +* [[Cosimo Rosselli]]
 +* [[Francesco d’Angelo|Il Cecca]] (Francesco d’Angelo)
 +* [[Bartolomeo della Gatta|Don Bartolomeo Abbate di S. Clemente]] (Bartolomeo della Gatta)
 +* [[Gherardo Silvani]]
 +* [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]]
 +* [[Antonio Pollaiuolo]]
 +* [[Piero Pollaiuolo]]
 +* [[Sandro Botticelli]]
 +* [[Benedetto da Maiano]]
 +* [[Andrea del Verrocchio]]
 +* [[Andrea Mantegna]]
 +* [[Filippino Lippi]]
 +* [[Pinturicchio|Bernardino Pinturicchio]]
 +* [[Francesco Francia]]
 +* [[Perugino|Pietro Perugino]]
 +* [[Vittore Carpaccio|Vittore Scarpaccia]]
 +* [[Jacopo Torni|Iacopo detto l'Indaco]] (Jacopo Torni)
 +* [[Luca Signorelli]]
 +* [[Sofonisba Anguissola]]
 +
 +=== Part 4 ===
 +
 +* [[Leonardo da Vinci]]
 +* [[Giorgione da Castelfranco]]
 +* [[Antonio da Correggio]]
 +* [[Piero di Cosimo]]
 +* [[Donato Bramante]] (Bramante da Urbino)
 +* [[Fra Bartolomeo]] Di San Marco
 +* [[Mariotto Albertinelli]]
 +* [[Raffaellino del Garbo]]
 +* [[Pietro Torrigiano]] (''Torrigiano'')
 +* [[Giuliano da Sangallo]]
 +* [[Antonio da Sangallo]]
 +* [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]]
 +* [[Guillaume de Marcillat]]
 +* [[Simone del Pollaiolo]] (''il Cronaca'')
 +* [[Davide Ghirlandaio]] and [[Benedetto Ghirlandaio]]
 +* [[Domenico Puligo]]
 +* [[Andrea Ferrucci|Andrea da Fiesole]]
 +* [[Vincenzo Tamagni|Vincenzo da San Gimignano]] and [[Timoteo della Vite|Timoteo da Urbino]]
 +* [[Andrea Sansovino]] (''Andrea dal Monte Sansovino'')
 +* [[Benedetto Grazzini|Benedetto da Rovezzano]]
 +* [[Baccio da Montelupo]] and [[Raffaello da Montelupo]] (father and son)
 +* [[Lorenzo di Credi]]
 +* [[Boccaccio Boccaccino]] (''Boccaccino Cremonese'')
 +* [[Lorenzetto]]
 +* [[Baldassare Peruzzi]]
 +* [[Pellegrino Aretusi|Pellegrino da Modena]] (Pellegrino Aretusi)
 +* [[Gianfrancesco Penni|Giovan Francesco]], also known as ''il Fattore''
 +* [[Andrea del Sarto]]
 +* [[Francesco Granacci]]
 +* [[Baccio D'Agnolo]]
 +* [[Properzia de’ Rossi]]
 +* [[Alfonso Lombardi]]
 +* [[Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli|Michele Agnolo]] (Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli)
 +* [[Girolamo Santacroce]]
 +* [[Dosso Dossi]] and [[Battista Dossi]] (Dossi brothers)
 +* [[Il Pordenone|Giovanni Antonio Licino]]
 +* [[Rosso Fiorentino]]
 +* [[Giovanni Antonio Sogliani]]
 +* [[Girolamo da Treviso]] (''Girolamo Da Trevigi'')
 +* [[Polidoro da Caravaggio]] and [[Maturino da Firenze]](''Maturino Fiorentino'')
 +* [[Bartolommeo Ramenghi]] (''Bartolomeo Da Bagnacavallo'')
 +* [[Marco Calabrese]]
 +* [[Morto Da Feltro]]
 +* [[Franciabigio]]
 +* [[Francesco Mazzola]]
 +* [[Jacopo Palma]] (Il Palma)
 +* [[Lorenzo Lotto]]
 +* [[Giovanni Giocondo|Fra Gocondo]]
 +* [[Francesco Granacci]]
 +* [[Baccio d'Agnolo]]
 +* [[Valerio Belli|Valerio Vicentino]] (Valerio Belli), [[Giovanni Bernardi|Giovanni da Castel Bolognese]] (Giovanni Bernardi) and [[Matteo dal Nasaro Veronese]]
 +
 +===Part 5===
 +* [[Marcantonio Raimondi|Marcantonio Bolognese]]
 +* [[Antonio da Sangallo]]
 +* [[Giulio Romano]]
 +* [[Sebastiano del Piombo]] (Sebastiano Viniziano)
 +* [[Perin del Vaga|Perino Del Vaga]]
 +* [[Giovanni Antonio Lappoli|Giovann'Antonio Lappoli]]
 +* [[Niccolò Soggi]]
 +* [[Niccolò Tribolo|Niccolò detto il Tribolo]]
 +* [[Pierino da Vinci]]
 +* [[Domenico Beccafumi]]
 +* [[Baccio Bandinelli]]
 +* [[Giuliano Bugiardini]]
 +* [[Cristofano Gherardi]]
 +* [[Jacopo da Pontormo]]
 +* [[Simone Mosca]]
 +* [[Girolamo Genga]], [[Bartolommeo Genga]] and [[Giovanni Battista Belluzzi|Giovanbatista San Marino]] (Giovanni Battista Belluzzi)
 +* [[Michele Sanmicheli]]
 +* [[Il Sodoma|Giovannantonio detto il Soddoma da Verzelli]]
 +* [[Bastiano da Sangallo|Bastiano detto Aristotile da San Gallo]]
 +* [[Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo)|Benedetto Garofalo]] and [[Girolamo da Carpi]]
 +* [[Ridolfo Ghirlandaio]], [[Davide Ghirlandaio]] and [[Benedetto Ghirlandaio]]
 +* [[Giovanni da Udine]]
 +* [[Battista Franco]]
 +* [[Giovanni Francesco Rustici|Francesco Rustichi]]
 +* [[Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli|Fra' Giovann'Agnolo Montorsoli]]
 +* [[Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati)|Francesco detto de' Salviati]]
 +* [[Daniele da Volterra|Daniello Ricciarelli da Volterra]]
 +* [[Taddeo Zuccari|Taddeo Zucchero]]
 +
 +===Part 6===
 +* [[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (Michelangelo)
 +* [[Francesco Primaticcio]]
 +* [[Titian|Tiziano da Cadore]] (Titian)
 +* [[Jacopo Sansovino]]
 +* [[Leone Leoni|Lione Aretino]] (Leone Leoni)
 +* [[Giulio Clovio]], [[illuminated manuscript|manuscript illuminator]]
 +* [[Bronzino]]
 +* [[Giorgio Vasari]]
 +
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari.

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The Vite contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, and is also adopted as a sort of classical reference guide for their names, which are sometimes used in different ways. The following list respects the order of the book, as divided into its three parts. The book starts with a dedication to Cosimo de' Medici and a preface, and then starts with technical and background texts about architecture, sculpture, and painting. A second preface follows, introducing the actual "Vite" in parts 2 to 5. What follows is the complete list from the second (1568) edition. In a few cases, different very short biographies were given in one section.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6




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