Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori
Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, edited by Gaetano Milanesi and published in Florence by Sansoni in 1906, is a scholarly edition of artists' biographies for art historians and readers of Italian. The pictures are genealogical family trees (alberetti) of Florentine and Italian families, drawn as ruled diagrams with small heraldic shields, printed in black on cream pages with page numbers at top corners. A designer might take the clean hierarchical charts, tabular grids and small crest illustrations as models for structured diagrams and typographic layout.
