Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects
By Giorgio Vasari
- Release Date: 1574-07-07
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
This book is a biographical account of artists. 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", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history".