Depicts a self-portrait of Giorgio Vasari with decorations from the cover of the book The Lives (Italian: Le Vite); below, the name of the designer, around the county name.

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari.

Vasari published the work in two editions with substantial differences between them; the first edition, two volumes, in 1550 and the second, three volumes, in 1568 (which is the one usually translated and referred to). One important change was the increased attention paid to Venetian art in the second edition, even though Vasari still was, and has ever since been, criticised for an excessive emphasis on the art of his native Florence.

Depicts a detail from an engraving by Vasari which represents a female figure holding the book "Le Vite" with her left hand and a vase full of wheat in the right. In the background a decorating ellipsoidal element drawn from an old engraving by the artist with the value in center and the mintmark on the left (R).