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Amy Boulden Art History Dr. Tracey E. Cooper 9/11/2002 Lives of Verrocchio and Leonardo In the book Lives of the Artists by Vasari, there are several distinctive qualities Vasari points out in the works of Andrea Verrocchio and Leonardo Di Vinci. Vasari distinguishes the lives of the artists into three parts, the imperfect, to the more observing artist, to excellence and mere perfection in a significant style of art. Vasari includes the work of some of the most prominent artists during the early to high Renaissance. Vasari discusses Verrocchio in part II of his book and Leonardo in part III. He stresses how in part II, the works of the artists are more elegant than earlier works and showed much improvement in the texture of the inventions. However, they lacked order and subtleness to their work unlike the artists in part III. Vasari draws a visual description in part III of how these artists excelled to a higher degree of perfecting different styles of art that reflects t