Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects [volume 1 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 1 of 10] contains biographies of the following artists: Giovanni Cimabue Arnolfo di Lapo Niccola and Giovanni of Pisa Andrea Tafi Gaddo Gaddi Margaritone Giotto Agostino and Agnolo of Siena Stefano and Ugolino Sanese Pietro Laurati Andrea Pisano Buonamico Buffalmacco Ambrogio Lorenzetti Pietro Cavallini Simone Sanese Taddeo Gaddi Andrea di Cione Orcagna Tommaso, called Giottino Giovanni dal Ponte Agnolo Gaddi