画家・彫刻家・建築家列伝
The history of early Netherlandish painting was first described by the Italian Lodovico Guicciardini in his "Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferiore "(1567; The Description of the Low Countries). This book formed a source for Giorgio Vasari's famous biographical accounts of painters in his book "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", often referred to as the "Vite".