Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori
A Florentine art-history edition of Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, edited by Milanesi and published in Florence by Sansoni in 1906, written for scholars and readers of Renaissance art. The pages show genealogical family trees rotated sideways, each set beneath a small framed portrait medallion or coat-of-arms panel, with names, dates and connecting lines in dense small type. A designer could take the tidy hierarchical tree layouts, the lozenge-framed portrait vignettes and the sober serif typography as models for infographics or heritage timelines.
