<P> Often called `` the first art historian '' , Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Le Vite de ' più eccellenti pittori , scultori , ed architettori ( Lives of the Most Eminent Painters , Sculptors , and Architects ) , dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici , which was first published in 1550 . He was the first to use the term `` Renaissance '' ( rinascita ) in print , though an awareness of the ongoing `` rebirth '' in the arts had been in the air since the time of Alberti , and he was responsible for our use of the term Gothic Art , though he only used the word Goth which he associated with the `` barbaric '' German style . The Lives also included a novel treatise on the technical methods employed in the arts . The book was partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568 , with the addition of woodcut portraits of artists ( some conjectural ) . </P>
<P> Often called `` the first art historian '' , Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Le Vite de ' più eccellenti pittori , scultori , ed architettori ( Lives of the Most Eminent Painters , Sculptors , and Architects ) , dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici , which was first published in 1550 . He was the first to use the term `` Renaissance '' ( rinascita ) in print , though an awareness of the ongoing `` rebirth '' in the arts had been in the air since the time of Alberti , and he was responsible for our use of the term Gothic Art , though he only used the word Goth which he associated with the `` barbaric '' German style . The Lives also included a novel treatise on the technical methods employed in the arts . The book was partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568 , with the addition of woodcut portraits of artists ( some conjectural ) . </P>
when did vasari write lives of the artists
when did vasari write lives of the artists
1550
1550