| Title | : | Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Giorgio Vasari |
| Release | : | 1574-01-11 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | History, Books |
| Size | : | 3210787 |
| The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, 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", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", [2] and "the first important book on art history". [3] The title is often abridged to the Vite or the Lives. |
