Engraved portrEngraved portrait Cosimo Bartoli from the book of Giorgio Vasari “Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri” (Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects). The book was first published in 1550. It was partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568, with the addition of woodcut portraits of artists (some conjectural).ait of Cosimo Bartoli