《艺苑名人传》，全名《由契马布埃至当代最优秀的意大利建筑师、画家、雕刻家的生平》（Le vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri），这是严格意义上的西方第一本艺术史著作，作者是乔尔乔·瓦萨里，该书从14世纪佛罗伦萨画家契马布埃开始，一直写到16世纪的艺术巨匠米开朗基罗，写到书的最末卷是他自己，共讲述了260多位意大利文艺复兴时期杰出艺术家的生平及其重要作品。它是“艺术史最早的重要著作”。

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to the Vite or the Lives.