Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori
This is an early twentieth-century Florentine edition of Giorgio Vasari's lives of Italian painters, sculptors and architects, edited by Gaetano Milanesi and published by Sansoni in 1906 for art historians and readers of Renaissance art. The pictures are pages of family trees, genealogical charts set in ruled columns with small shield-shaped coats of arms at the top, printed in black and white with fine connecting lines and dense small type. A designer might take the heraldic shields, the tidy hierarchical diagram layouts and the period typography of the charts as reference for historical infographics.
