1. Vasari and the Rebirth of the Visual Arts

2. Giorgio Vasari and assistants, The Sala dei Cinquecento, the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

3. Giorgio Vasari and Bernardo Buontalenti, The Uffizi Corridor, Florence

4. Giorgio Vasari, Self-portrait as St Luke painting the Virgin from the chapel in SS. Annunziata where the Accademia del Disegno met.

5. Titlepage of Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors from Cimabue until Our Own Times (Florence, 1550)

6. Titlepage of Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Florence, 1568)

7. Christ Pantocrator, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, 12 th Century

8. Cimabue, Maestà, 1285-1286

9. Giotto, Death and Ascension of St. Francis (detail), c. 1325

10. Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral, 1419-1436

11. Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Decoration of the façade of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, late 1470s

12. Lorenzo Ghiberti, Cain and Abel, the Baptistery, Florence, 1425-1452

13. Donatello, David, c. 1430?

14. Masaccio, St. Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow, 1426- 1427

15. Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna Litta, c.1490-1491

16. Giorgione, The Tempest, c. 1505

17. Raphael, Portrait of Castiglione, 1514-1515

18. Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1510