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Categories: Architecture books, Art history books, Biographies about artists, 1568 books, Italian books
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects  Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori  Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri  Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori  Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori scultori et architettori
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, often simply known as The Lives, 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". Wikipedia
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, often simply known as The Lives, 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". Wikipedia
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