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