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,

12th Century

Cimabue, Maestà,1285-1286

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

Filippo Brunelleschi,

Dome of Florence Cathedral, 1419-1436

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

Donatello, David, c. 1430?

Masaccio, St. Peter Healing the

Sick with his Shadow, 1426-

1427

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

Giorgione, The Tempest, c. 1505

Raphael, Portrait of

Castiglione, 1514-1515

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1510