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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.
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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, 12th Century
Giotto, Death and Ascension of St. Francis (detail), c. 1325
Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Decoration of the façade of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, late 1470s
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Cain and Abel, the Baptistery, Florence, 1425-1452
Masaccio, St. Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow, 1426-1427