Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) 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".
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| Original title | Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori
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| Translator | E. L. Seeley
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| Country | Italy
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| Language | Italian
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| Subject | Artist biographies
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| Publisher | Torrentino (1550), Giunti (1568)
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| Publication date | 1550 (enlarged 1568)
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| Published in English | 1908
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| Pages | 369 (1550), 686 (1568)
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