ID: 901001420 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001420	Record Type: Literature

	Le Vite (biographies, Vasari, 1550)

Note: Series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari. first published in 1550 by Lorenzo Torrentino in Florence and dedicated to Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It included a valuable treatise on the technical methods employed in the arts. It was partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568 and provided with woodcut portraits of artists.

Names:

	Le Vite (biographies, Vasari, 1550) (preferred,a,Italian-P,D,P)
	Le Vite (biographies, Vasari, 1550) (English-P,D,P)
	Le Vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (biographies, Vasari, 1550) (f,Italian,U,P)
	Lives of the Artists (biographies, Vasari, 1550) (t,English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: History, Biographies> (P)
		............Le Vite (biographies, Vasari, 1550) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... biographies (literary genre)
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	author is .... Giorgio Vasari (Italian painter, architect, writer, 1511-1574)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	Le Vite (biographies, Vasari, 1550)
	................Grove Art Online (2008-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Le Vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (biographies, Vasari, 1550)
	................Library of Congress (2016-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Lives of the Artists (biographies, Vasari, 1550)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)