 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 some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art and the first important book on art history. 
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