Lives of the Artists Author:Vasari Vasari's LIVES OF THE ARTISTS, the primary source of material on the Renaissance artists, remains as significant today as at the time it was written. Its lively pages present us with those turbulent individualists who created the greatest artistic flowering in modern European history. Almost as though in anticipation of modern taste, Vasari pa... more »ys equal attention to such primitive as Cimabue and to the famous masters of the high Renaissance. n this edition, which follows the selection and tranlation by E L Seeley, much of the vigor and flavor of 16th century prose has been retained.« less