Vita del gran Michelagnolo Bvonarroti / scritta da M. Giorgio Vasari, pittore & architetto aretino con le sue magnifiche essequie stategli fatte in Fiorenza, dall'Achademia del disegno
Vasari's 1568 Florentine biography of Michelangelo, printed by the Giunti press in Florence for readers interested in artists' lives and the Academy of Design. The pictures include a framed portrait medallion of Michelangelo flanked by putti, a decorated title page with an architectural border and a city view, a large historiated initial H, and a woodcut fleur-de-lis cartouche; a designer could draw on their dense classical frames, cartouches and figurative borders for period ornament.
