Vasari and the Rebirth of the Visual Arts
Giorgio Vasari and assistants, The Sala dei Cinquecento, the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Giorgio Vasari and Bernardo Buontalenti, The Uffizi Corridor, Florence
Giorgio Vasari, Self-portrait as St Luke painting the Virgin from the chapel in SS. Annunziata where the Accademia del Disegno met.
Titlepage of Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors from Cimabue until Our Own Times (Florence, 1550)
Titlepage of Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Florence, 1568)
Christ Pantocrator, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, 12 th Century
Cimabue, Maestà,
Giotto, Death and Ascension of St. Francis (detail), c. 1325
Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral,
Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Decoration of the façade of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, late 1470s
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Cain and Abel, the Baptistery, Florence,
Donatello, David, c. 1430?
Masaccio, St. Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow,
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna Litta, c
Giorgione, The Tempest, c. 1505
Raphael, Portrait of Castiglione,
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1510