Vasari, Giorgio, - Lives of the artists.

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] l Dover books. Mineola 2016. Pb. 245. very good.