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