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Francis Ames-Lewis
Description: The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
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Francis Ames-Lewis
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Abacus school 19, 20, 30, 31, 35
Accademia del Disegno 59
Accademia leonardi vinci 58, 59
Accademia Platonica 59
Agostino di Duccio 27
Agostino Veneziano, engraving of Bandinelli’s ‘Academia’ 59, fig. 30
Albano, Taddeo 3, 176
Alberti, Leon Battista 18, 20, 102, 161, 232, 250
De re aedificatoria 21
ideal painter of 6
On Painting ix, 5, 6, 13, 18, 20, 30, 46, 63, 110, 141, 142–5, 147, 148, 164, 180
     on the aim of the painter 245
     ‘circumscription’ 38, 247, 260–61
     ‘composition’ 247
     dedications of 20, 33, 78, 143
     on Demetrius 190
     on drawing after sculpture 46–7, 48
     on the education of the painter 30, 34
     geometrical perspective in 9, 31, 247, 260
     on Giotto’s Navicella 193
     on inventio 181
     istoria in 42, 256
     on Lucian’s ekphrasis of Apelles 166, 181, 193, 194, 256
     on the painter and geometry 254
     on painters and poets 165–6, 168
     on portraits 209
     primacy of painting 144
     ‘reception of light’ 48, 52, 155, 247, 261
     theoretical foundation for painters 143
     on Zeuxis 79, 187
On Sculpture 145
pictorial principles of 245–6
S. Andrea, Mantua 102–6
S. Sebastiano, Mantua 68
Albertini, Francesco 81
Aleotti, Ulisse degli 168
Alexander the Great 78, 134, 189, 206
Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples 17, 62, 85, 166, 276
Altdorfer, Albrecht 40–42, 65
Battle of Alexander (Munich, Altepinakothek) 65
Altichiero, Jacopo 5
frescoes in Palazzo Carrara, Padua 112
frescoes in Palazzo Scaligero, Verona 111, fig. 49
Amadori, Alessandro 186
Ambrosiana Master, the 124
Ambrosiana sketchbook, the 118–19, fig. 56
Andrea del Sarto, tomb of (formerly Florence, SS Annunziata) 93
Angelico, Fra 14, 33, 94–5, 119
Landino on 275
prior of convent of S. Domenico, Fiesole 95
St Lawrence before Decius (Vatican, St Nicholas chapel) 121
tomb of (Rome, S. Maria sopra Minerva) 89, 93–5
d’Anghiari, Matteo di Ser Paolo 21
d’Anjou, René, King of Naples 17, 71, 85, 280n
Anjou
Queen Joanna of 62
King Robert of 62
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) 86, 131, 155
ability to empathise with classical past 132
‘classical’ busts of 134
restoration of classical statuary 136
small bronze Apollo Belvedere 3, 46, 131–2, 136, 154, fig. 68
     Hercules and Antaeus (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) 132
     Meleager (London, Victoria and Albert Museum) 131
     Spinario, for Isabella d’Este 132
small bronzes for Bishop Ludovico Gonzaga 46, 78, 132, 134, 154
antiquarianism 109, 128
Antonello da Messina 89–90
Eyckian oil technique of 266
St Jerome in His Study 264, 266–8, fig. 148
Antoninus Pius, Emperor 140
Antonio Maria della Mirandola, Count 132
Apelles 78, 134, 189, 206–7
‘Calumny’ of 166, 181, 194, 196, 198, 256, 268
‘Marriage of Alexander and Roxana’ by 189, 198
‘Venus of Cos’ by 131, 193
Apollo Belvedere 252
acquired by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere 81
drawing after (Codex Escurialensis) 44
engraving after (Raimondi circle) 44, 132, fig. 21
restoration by Montorsoli 132
small bronze after (Antico) 3, 46, 131–2, fig. 68
Apollonio di Giovanni 206
Appian 126
Archimedes 21, 78
architecture, as a liberal art 4, 66
Ariosto 173
Aristotle, Poetics 163
Arnolfo di Cambio 67
ars et ingenium (skill and talent) 238, 245
artist(s) and intellectual life 1
as advisers on art 61, 85–7
apprenticeship of 35
archaeological attitudes of 109, 123–4
as architects 66–70
aspiration towards status of ‘liberal arts’ 9
civic responsibilities of 64–5
as collectors 61, 79–85
as courtiers 1, 168, 272, 279
as craftsmen 2, 3
creative skill of 242
as diplomats and spies 65–6
and Domus Aurea decorations 128–31
dress of 61, 70–74, 271–2
education of 30–31
engagement with classical sculpture 134–5
gifts to patrons 76–9
handwriting of 26–30
houses of 61, 68–70
as imitator of nature 179
inventories of 21–2
knowledge of Latin 19–26
obsessiveness of 273
social status of 242
and study of geometry 31
titles of 61, 62–4
training of 60
visits from patrons 74–6
wills of 37
Aspertini, Amico, Codex Wolfegg 84, 85
drawing after Adonis sarcophagus 84, fig. 37
drawing after Roman Jupiter 137, fig. 74 a and b
Assisi, S. Francesco, Lower Church 212
Athanasius of Naukratis 72
Athens, Parthenon, shield of Athena Parthenos 232
Augustus, Emperor 78
Averlino, Antonio, see Filarete
Avignon 65
 
Baldassare del Milanese 132
Baldini, Baccio, engravings of 39–40
Libyan Sibyl engraving 39, fig. 14
Bandinelli, Baccio 140
‘Academia … in Roma’ of 59, fig. 30
Baldovinetti, Alessio 239
tomb of (Florence, S. Ambrogio) 100
Barcelona 276
Barbari, Jacopo de’ 42, 173, 252
Bartolommeo di Bertozzo 262
Bartolommeo, Fra 6
inventory of 52, 53
workshop properties of 55
Worship of Venus drawing 202–3, fig. 100
Barzizza, Gasparino 36
Basinio da Parma 168
Beauneveu, André 85
Beham, Barthel 44
Bellini family
Anna 91
     bequest of 53, 80, 136, 263, 281n
          bust of Plato in 80, 136
Gentile 19, 263, 271
     drawings of, used by Pinturicchio 37
     inheritance of 53, 80
     owned classical statuette of Venus 80
     portrait of Sultan Mehmet II 64
     titles of 63–4
     tomb of (formerly Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo) 91
Giovanni 19, 215, 271
     Christ the Redeemer (London, National Gallery) 118
     Continence of Scipio (Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art) 200
     Feast of the Gods 173, 200–02, fig. 98
     and Isabella d’Este 173, 181, 183, 200, 276, 278
     Nativity, for Isabella d’Este 184
     and Niccolò Bellini 80, 136
     Pietà (Milan, Brera) 25–6
     tomb of (formerly Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo) 91
Jacopo 19, 33, 91, 206
     antiquarian interests of 238
     archaeological curiosity of 116, 118
     books of drawings of 37–8, 262–4
     daughter of, married Andrea Mantegna 118
     drawings of Roman tombs 116–18, 263, fig. 54
     Nativity drawing 32, 262, fig. 10
     portrait of Leonello d’Este 168
     records of Roman coins 115, fig. 54
     Triumphal Procession of Bacchus drawing 263, fig. 147
     workshop plaster casts of 53
Belvedere Torso
owned by Andrea Bregno 83–4, fig. 36
engraving after (Giovanni Antonio da Brescia) 137, fig. 72
Bembo, Pietro 106, 184–5, 200
Gli asolani 176
Bernini, Gianlorenzo, bust of Charles I 158
Bertoldo di Giovanni 30, 58, 62
Bicci di Lorenzo 27
Bicharano, Francesco 36
Biondo, Flavio
Roma instaurata 124
Roma triumphans 126
Boccaccio, Giovanni 180
Amorosa visione 193
Decamerone 22, 269
on Giotto 178
writings of 21
Boldù, Giovanni, self-portrait medals 22, 114, 212, 238–9, fig. 130
Bologna, S. Petronio 64
Boltraffio, Giovanni Antonio 17
Bon family 19
Bonsignori, Francesco 78
Borgia, Cesare 132
Borselli, Fra Giovanni 277
Botticelli, Sandro 22–3, 172–3
Adoration of the Magi 229–31, 239, figs 123–4
Birth of Venus 193, fig. 92
Calumny of Apelles 14, 79, 177, 194–6, 268–70, fig. 94
compared with Apelles 207, 269
illustrated Dante 269
Ludovico Sforza’s agent on 275
Mystic Nativity (London, National Gallery) 23
paintings for Giannozzo Pucci 269
Pallas and the Centaur (Florence, Uffizi) 177
Primavera (Florence, Uffizi) 172
and Savonarola 268
self-portrait of 229, 231, fig. 124
workshop of 58
Bouts, Dirk, Supper at Emmaus (Louvain) 211
Bracciolini, Poggio 27, 85
Bramante, Donato 19–20, 67, 68, 169
Palazzo Caprini, Rome 70
Bregno
Andrea 100
     collection of antiquities 82–5
          Adonis sarcophagus (Mantua) 84, 124
          Altar of Augustus (Vatican) 84
          Belvedere Torso 83–4, fig. 36
     tomb of (Rome, S. Maria sopra Minerva) 97–100, 220, fig. 44
Caterina 83
Brescia, S. Salvatore, tomb of Metellia Prima 116–18
Bruges 276
Brunelleschi, Filippo 5, 145
as dedicatee of Alberti’s On Painting 20, 33
education of 19
as goldsmith and bronze sculptor 67
on invenzioni 180
painting of Florence Baptistery 31
perspective of 31–2, 147
as poet 169
S. Maria degli Angeli, Florence 180
tomb and cenotaph of, Florence cathedral 91
Bruni, Leonardo 145, 272
Brussels 71
Buggiano 91
Burgkmair, Hans, Weisskönig engraving 75, fig. 32
Burgundy, court of 9
 
Calvo, Fabio Marco 21
Campagnola
Girolamo 17
Giulio 17, 18, 22
Candida 64
Capua, Triumphal Gateway of Frederick II 110
Caradosso 86
Carafa, Cardinal Oliviero 273
Carmignano, near Padua, Roman tomb at 116
Carpaccio, Vittore, Portrait of a Young Knight 37, fig. 12
Carrara
Francesco I da, court of, in Padua 178
     palace of 112
Francesco II da 4, 5
Francesco I and II da, coins of 112, fig. 50
Casalini, Marco, of Rovigo 153
Castagno, Andrea del 11
Castelfranco di Sopra 65
Castiglione, Baldassare 1, 20, 86, 161, 168
friendship with Raphael 242
ideal courtier of 72
The Book of the Courtier 1, 18, 22, 161, 168, 280n
     on Alexander the Great and Apelles 189
     on Leonardo da Vinci 272
     on painting and drawing 17, 18
     on the paragone 143–4, 150–53
     on Raphael 152
Castiglione Olona, Collegiata 217
Catullus, ekphrasis of, as source for Titian 205
Cavael, Jacques 71
Cavalieri, Tommaso de’ 79
Cavalli, Gian Marco 126
Cecca, II, tomb (formerly Florence, S. Pier Scheraggio) 92–3
Celtis, Konrad 21, 206–7, 241, 271
Cennini, Cennino 6, 13, 164
The Craftsman’s Handbook ix, 5–6, 7, 57, 61, 141, 177, 213
     on drawing 36, 48
     on fantasia 6, 177–8
     on the imitation of nature 164, 178
     on the painter’s apprenticeship 35, 274
     on the painter’s conduct 30–31
     on the painter’s dress 71–2
     on painting and poetry 164
     pasteboard pouch in 50
     reusable boxwood panel in 47
Cesariano 67
Charles V, Emperor 8
Charles VIII, King of France 64, 66
Chellini, Giovanni 79
Chigi
Agostino, Villa Farnesina of 189, 198
Sigismondo 74
Ciampolini, Giovanni 85, 86, 137
Cicero 131, 166, 173, 187, 193
Ciecho, Maestro 20
Cima da Conegliano 173–5
Cimabue 163, 192, 224
Ciriaco d’Ancona 81
Civitali, Matteo 81–2
Clement VII, Pope 245
Codex Escurialensis 38–9, 44, 129, 137, fig. 65
Commodus, Emperor 123
Condivi, Ascanio 11, 132
Constantine the Great, Emperor 119, 140
Cornaro, Francesco 157, 200
Corvinus, Matthias, King of Hungary 63, 66
Cossa, Francesco del 273
Costa, Lorenzo 200, 275
Cristoforo di Geremia 86, 114
Constantine medallion 114, fig. 53
restoration of Marcus Aurelius 123, 135
Crivelli, Carlo 64
Madonna della Rondine (London, National Gallery) 64
Cronaca, il (Simone del Pollaiuolo) 70, 91
 
Dacher, Gebhart 65
Dalmata, Giovanni 63
Dante Alighieri 3, 163
portrait of, by Giotto 212
on sculpture 192–3, 196, 269
works of 21, 22, 169
     illustrated by Botticelli 269
Dati, Leonardo 168
Datini, Francesco di Marco 262
Decembrio, Pier Candido 206
Delli, Dello 63, 71
Demetrius 190
Dente, Marco 140
Desiderio da Settignano 148, 207
Domenico Veneziano 11, 27, 33
Domitian, sestertius of 115, fig. 54
Donatello 12, 18, 67, 179
altarpiece for S. Antonio, Padua 179
and antiquities 85–6
Ascension and Giving of the Keys 147–8, fig. 77
bronze David (Florence, Bargello) 14
bronze pulpits (Florence, S. Lorenzo) 33
burial of, in S. Lorenzo, Florence 100
collection of antiquities 81
as dedicatee of Alberti’s On Painting 20
drawings of 46
dress of 71
Feast of Herod (Lille) 247
Feast of Herod (Siena, Baptistery font) 32, 147
house of 69
(?) restoration of Medici Marsyas 135, fig. 70
rilievo schiacciato (‘squashed relief’) of 147–8, 153
roundels in Old Sacristy, S. Lorenzo, Florence 148, 169
Virgin and Child with Angels (London, Victoria and Albert Museum) 79
Donato degli Albanzani 112
Donatus, Latin grammar of 21
drawings after the antique 56, 124
Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum 163
Dürer
Agnes 227
Albrecht 6, 8, 79
     Abduction of the Sabine Women drawing 43–4, fig. 20
     Christ among the Doctors 248, fig. 137
     compared with Phidias and Apelles 206–7
     concern with human anatomy 249–50, 252
     concern with intellectual status 8, 254
     copies after Mantegna engravings 44, 252
     dress of 74
     engravings of 40, 249, 279
          Adam and Eve 250–53, 256, fig. 139
          light and shade in 249, 254
          meisterstiche 6, 250, 253, 264
          Melencolia I 238, 242, 253–4, 273, fig. 140
          St Jerome in His Study 250, 254, 264, fig. 141
          Vision of St Eustace 250, 254, fig. 138
     Four Apostles (Munich, Alte Pinakothek) 78–9
     as Genannter in Nuremberg 65
     house of 70
     intellectual activity of 8, 249
     and Jacopo de’ Barbari 252–3
     knowledge of Latin 21
     letters to Pirckheimer 31, 74, 271
     oil-painting technique of 248
     on painters representing themselves 210
     and perspective 31, 249, 254
     as poet 170
     and Pollaiuolo 43, 158
     as printmaker 8
     Rosenkranzfest altarpiece 74, 240, 271, fig. 1 (detail)
     self-awareness of 249
     self-portraits of 209, 242–3, 279
          Self-portrait (1493) 225–7, 240, fig. 121
          Self-portrait (1498) 74, 240, 242, fig. 131
          Self-portrait (1500) 74, 240–41, 270, fig. 132
          self-portrait drawing (Bremen) 242, 273, fig. 134
          self-portrait drawing (Erlangen) 215, fig. 110
          self-portrait drawing (New York) 215, fig. 111
          self-portrait drawing (Vienna) 225, 291n, fig. 119
     signatures of 23
     social status of 8
Albrecht, the Elder, self-portrait drawing 225, fig. 120
Dyck, Anthony van, triple portrait of Charles I 158
 
ekphrasis 189–207, 269–70
engravings, copper-plate, uses of 39–46, 249–59
Equicola, Mario 200
d’Este family 274
Alfonso 7, 173, 200–01, 205, 207
     Camerino d’alabastro of 157, 199–205
Baldassare 17, 273
Beatrice, wife of Ludovico Sforza 61, 185
Borso 17, 273
Ercole 76, 272
Isabella, wife of Francesco Gonzaga 3, 61, 127, 136, 201
     bronzi finti of, by Mantegna 154
     camerino of 183, 186, 199–200, 205, 276
     correspondence of 277–8
     and Giorgione 176
     and Giovanni Bellini 173, 181, 183–5, 200, 278
     and Leonardo da Vinci 183, 185–6, 275, 278
     acquired Michelangelo’s Sleeping Cupid 132–3
     and Perugino 173, 180, 181–3, 185
     ‘poetic inventions’ of 173, 180, 182, 184, 186, 204, 205
     purchase of bust of Faustina the Elder 80, 86
     purchase of bust of Plato 80
     small bronzes for, by Antico 132
Leonello 78, 112, 165, 180, 238
     portraits of, by Pisanello and Jacopo Bellini 168
Niccolò III 17
Euclid 21
Eugenius IV, Pope 235
Eyck
Hubert and Jan van, Ghent altarpiece 26, fig. 6 (detail)
Jan van 8, 66, 74, 266
     Arnolfini Double Portrait 217, fig. 113 (detail)
     knowledge of Latin 26
     Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (Paris, Louvre) 247
     Madonna of the Fountain (Antwerp) 220
     Man in a Red Turban (?self-portrait) 212, 220–22, 240–41, 270, fig. 115
     Margarethe van Eyck (Bruges) 222
     oil technique of 247, 266
     painting of ‘women … emerging from the bath’ 159
     Portrait of Tymotheos (London, National Gallery) 22
     ‘St George and the Dragon’ (lost) 276
     Salvator Mundi (Berlin) 220
     surface textures of 245
     Virgin and Child of Canon van der Paele (Bruges) 217, 268
     Virgin and Child with Saints (Dresden) 220
 
familiaris 61, 62, 231, 234
Famulus 72
Fancelli, Luca 68
fantasia 177–8, 179–81, 185–6, 200, 274, 277
Fazio, Bartolommeo 166
on van Eyck and van der Weyden 266
On Famous Men 12, 164–5
on the painter and the poet 180
on Pisanello 165
Federigo da Montefeltro 65, 76, 169, 232, 246
Feliciano, Felice 128, 287n
Epigrammaticon… 124
Feltre, Vittorino da 18
school of, the Casa Giocosa 18, 19
Ferdinand, Prince of Capua (later Ferdinand II, King of Naples) 64
Ferrante, King of Naples 63, 264
Ferrara, d’Este court of 6, 7, 9, 12, 17
Ferrara/Florence, Council of 22
Ficino, Marsilio 59, 240
Fiera, Battista 275
figure drawings 47, 48, 53
Filarete (Antonio Averlino) 22, 235, 291n
archaeological interests of 123
self-portrait medal 212, 234–5, fig. 127
self-portrait medallion (Rome, St Peters, bronze doors) 114, 234–5
Self-portrait with Workshop Assistants 236–8, fig. 129
small bronze Marcus Aurelius 79, 123, 131, fig. 60
Treatise on Architecture 6, 67, 232
     on the artist’s house 68–9
     description of Sforzinda 231–2
     on the exercise of fantasia 186
     on Giotto and Cimabue 192, 224
     on invenzione 181
      on the paragone 149–50
     on the use of a lay-figure 48
Ulysses and Iro (bronze plaque) 22, fig. 3
understanding of Greek and Latin 22
visit of Duke of Milan to workshop of 75
(workshop) medallions of Roman emperors 113–14, 132, fig. 52
Filibert of Savoy 66
Finiguerra, Maso, workshop of
books of drawings of 38
figure-drawings of 38, 47
Seated Boy Drawing (Florence Uffizi) 27, 66, fig. 8
Seated Boy Drawing (London, British Museum) 47, fig. 22
Florence 5, 6, 9, 65
Baptistery
     doors of 5
     Andrea Pisano’s doors 145
     Ghiberti’s first doors 145
          second doors 5, 33, 37, 92, 145, 210, 235
     painting of, by Brunelleschi 31
Bargello 212
cathedral 67
     altarpieces project 46
     artists’ cenotaphs 91–2, 97, 102, 215
Compagnia di SS Annunziata 22
Giardino di S. Marco 58, 59, 60, 62
Guilds of
     Arte di Calimala (Clothworkers’ Guild) 145
     Arte della Lana (Wool Guild) 69
     Arte della Seta (Silk Guild) 19
     Stoneworkers’ Guild 64–5
Orsanmichele 269
     tabernacle of 212, 213
Palazzo Medici
     chapel decoration 30, 215, 228
     courtyard 81
Piazza S. Marco 58
S. Lorenzo
     bronze pulpits of 33
     burial of Donatello in 100
     Old Sacristy decoration 148, 169
S. Maria degli Angeli 180
S. Maria Novella, frescoes by Ghirlandaio 38, 129, 239–40
     by Filippino Lippi 130
     by Masaccio 32
     in Spanish Chapel 211–12
     by Uccello 33
S. Trinita, frescoes by Ghirlandaio 38
Florentine, c.1470
Creation of the World engraving 40, 250, fig. 16
Eleven Nude Figures drawing 33, 55, 259–61, fig. 145
Fogolino, Marcello and Agostino 66
Fouquet, Jean 8, 13, 33
Chevalier Hours (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale) 33
self-portrait roundel 212, 222, fig. 104
Franchi, Rossello di Jacopo 27
François I, King of France 8
Frederick II, Emperor 110
Frederick III, Emperor 63, 65, 114
Froissart, Jean 85
 
Gaddi, Taddeo 212
Gaeta, SS Annunziata 212
Gallerani, Cecilia 276
Gauricus, Pomponius 30
Genga, Girolamo 74
Gentile da Fabriano 33, 62, 69, 71, 118
Adoration of the Magi (Florence, Uffizi) 31
(?) draughtsman of Ambrosiana sketchbook 118–19, fig. 56
frescoes in Brescia 206
frescoes in Doge’s Palace, Venice 71
Presentation (Paris, Louvre) 31
Quaratesi altarpiece, predella 118
Gentile de’ Becchi 240
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 5, 30, 37, 132
as architect of Strozzi sacristy, S. Trinita, Florence 67
collection of antiquities 81
     Letto di Policleto 81, 82, cf. fig. 35
Commentaries 5, 12, 26, 141, 272
     on the education of the artist 30
     on favours done to artists 52, 145
     on the primacy of drawing 144, 153
     on a ‘Venus’ by Lysippus 110
     written in the vernacular 20–21
as dedicatee of Alberti’s On Painting 20
diligence of 180, 289n
drawings of 46
Florence, Baptistery
     first bronze doors of 145, 289n
          Christ among the Doctors fig. 76a
     second bronze doors of 5, 145, 147
          programme by Bruni for 145, 272
          self-portrait 92, 210, 235, 272, fig. 128
          Story of Isaac 33, fig. 76b
          Story of Noah 37
handwriting of 26, fig. 7
knowledge of Latin 20
and pictorial relief 147
St John the Baptist (Florence, Orsanmichele) 26–7
St Stephen (Florence, Orsanmichele) 289n
tomb of (Florence, S. Croce) 100–01
Ghirlandaio
Davide 239
Domenico
     and the Domus Aurea decorations 128–9, fig. 65
     drapery study for the Louvre Visitation 52, fig. 26
     drawings after the antique 38
     frescoes in Florence 38
          Annunciation to Zacharias (S. Maria Novella) 240
          Birth of the Virgin (S. Maria Novella) 52, 129
          Expulsion of Joachim (S. Maria Novella) 239, fig. 131 (detail)
          Resuscitation of the Spini Child (S. Trinita) 241
     fresco in Sistine Chapel, Vatican 128
     Giovanna Tornabuoni 25, figs 2 and 5
     self-portraits of 239–40, 241, fig. 131
     studies of drapery 51, fig. 25
     use of lay-figure 52
     use of model-book drawings 38
     Virgin and Child with Saints altarpiece (Florence, Uffizi) 51–2
     workshop of 17, 40
          Codex Escurialensis 38–9, 44, 129, 137, fig. 65
Giorgione 3, 175–6, 215, 279
(circle of) Fête Champêtre 176, fig. 83
paragone demonstration 158–9
Portrait of the Artist as David 212, 215, fig. 107
Tempesta (Venice, Accademia) 14, 176, 206
Giotto 5
Boccaccio on 178
as capomaestro of Florence cathedral 67
cenotaph of, Florence cathedral 92, 95, 215
Dante on 163
as familiaris to Robert of Anjou 62
Filarete on 192, 224
Filippo Villani on 164, 178
Navicella (Rome, St Peter’s) 193
self-portraits of 212
Giovanni Andrea di Fiore 80
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia 140, 257
engraving after Belvedere Torso 137, fig. 72
Giovanni da Padova 128
Giovanni de Santi, tomb of, in Madonna dell’Orto, Venice 93
Madonna dell’Orto 93
Giovannino de’ Grassi 37
Giuliano da Sangallo 86, 137–40
collection of 81–2
drawings after the antique 129
Giulio Romano 81, 85, 86
Giusto d’Andrea 35
Gonzaga family 78, 102, 187, 232
archive of 12
Barbara, wife of Ludovico 232
Bishop Ludovico 46, 78, 132, 154
Cardinal Francesco 86
Federigo 76, 126
Francesco 63, 66, 68, 105
     and Giovanni Bellini 181
     and Mantegna 76, 78, 206, 272, 277
Gianfrancesco 61, 78
Gianfrancesco, Lord of Ródigo 131
Ludovico 102, 125, 232
     bust of 232
     and Cristoforo di Geremia 86
     and Mantegna 62, 63, 68
Margherita, wife of Leonello d’Este 78
Gossaert, Jan 66, 74–5
Gozzoli, Benozzo 232
archaeological instincts of 121, 136
drawings after the antique 39
frescoes in the Camposanto, Pisa 33
     Joseph in Egypt 90, 228
     Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca, sinopia for 33, fig. 11
frescoes at Certaldo 35
frescoes in S. Agostino, San Gimignano 30, 35
     St Augustine’s Departure for Milan 228
handwriting of 27–30
perspective of 33, fig. 11
Rotterdam sketchbook of 119
self-portraits in frescoes, Palazzo Medici, Florence 212, 215, 228, 238, 241, figs 108–9
self-portraiture of 228, 231
studies of casts of feet 55–6, fig. 29
study of nude female torso 121–3, fig. 59
study after Quirinal Horsetamers 119, fig. 57
study of Trajanic relief at SS Apostoli, Rome 119–21, fig. 58
tomb of, Camposanto, Pisa 90
workshop of 58
Granacci, Francesco 56, 58, 91
Grimani
Cardinal Domenico 131, 212
Cardinal Giovanni, bequest to Venice of 134
Guarino, Battista 205
Guarino da Verona 194
on classical practitioners of painting 18
on Pisanello 165, 168
programme for Muses cycle 180
on the superiority of the written word 165, 238
Guido d’Arezzo 163
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro 161, 280n
Guinizelli, Guido 163
 
Henry VIII, King of England 8, 66
Holbein, Hans, The Duchess of Milan (London, National Gallery) 66
Homer 164, 165
Odyssey 22
Horace 173
Ars poetica 163–4, 165–6, 167–8
Hypnerotomachia polifili, the 175
 
imitation of nature, the 178, 186, 250
Innocent VIII, Pope, Belvedere of in Vatican 198
chapel decorated by Mantegna (lost) 63, 66, 77, 125
invenzione 177, 180–81, 185–6
Isabella of Portugal 66
 
Jacobello del Fiore 36
Jacopino da Tradate 206
Jacquet de Lyon 85
Jean, duc de Berry 77–8, 85
‘Johanes de francfordia’ 42
Josephus 21, 125
Julius II, Pope 66, 67, 86, 107, 170
 
Lama, Guasparre del 229
Landino, Cristoforo 178, 240, 274–5
Disputationes camaldulenses 232
Landshut, St Martin 97
Laocoön, the 86, 131
restoration of 137–40
wax model, by Jacopo Sansovino 131
Lascaris, Gian Giorgio, ‘Pyrgoteles’ 134
Laura, portrait of 212
Laurana, Francesco 66, 71
Leo X, Pope 6, 64, 107, 140, 189
Leonardo da Besozzo 62
Leonardo da Vinci 1–2, 8, 17, 20, 58, 65–6, 209
his ‘Accademia leonardi vinci’ 58, 59
as adviser for Isabella d’Este 86
as architect 67–8
as art theorist 250
artistic freedom of 187
artistic intentions of 13
Castiglione on 272
compared with Zeuxis 207
as courtier 61, 168, 272, 279
death of 6
drapery studies in brush on linen 51
drawing of ‘Neptune’ 3, 79
education of 19
handwriting of 27
and Isabella d’Este 183, 185–6, 275, 276, 278
knowledge of Latin 21, 22
Last Supper (Milan, S. Maria delle Grazie) 211
Leda and the Swan (lost) 252
letter to Ludovico Sforza 272
on Masaccio 178–9
Mona Lisa (Paris, Louvre) 13, 172
as musician 61
sfumato of 152
‘Treatise on painting’ 142, 166, 179
     on figure drawing 47–8
     on figure sculpture 151, 153, 157
     on the imitation of nature 179
     on low relief sculpture 147, 151
     on the painter’s dress 72, 271–2
     on the painter’s training 59
     on painting faces 211
     on painting’s not being a ‘mechanical art’ 1–2, 14
     on painting’s superiority over poetry 2, 166–7, 168, 172, 240
     on painting’s superiority over sculpture 142, 150–53, 161, 270
     on perspective 31, 34, 147
Vasari on 19, 177
Leoni, Leone 81
‘liberal arts’, the 1, 9, 14, 60, 63, 86, 164, 279
Limbourg brothers 77–8
Lippi
Filippino 19, 177
     as adviser on classical sculpture 86
     design of tomb of Fra Filippi Lippi 96–7, 130, fig. 41
     drawings of Domus Aurea murals 129–30, fig. 66
     figure drawings by 47, fig. 23
     frescoes in Carafa Chapel, S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome 86, 129, 273
     frescoes in Strozzi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence 130
     inventory of 21
     knowledge of Latin 22
     letter to Filippo Strozzi 273
     Ludovico Sforza’s agent on 275
Filippo, Fra 19, 27, 33, 35, 96–7
     Barbadori altarpiece (Paris, Louvre) 211
     Landino on 275
     tomb of, Spoleto cathedral 89, 95–7, 220, fig. 41
     workshop of, drapery studies 50, fig. 24
Livy 21
Lodovico da Canossa, Count 143, 150
Lomazzo, Giampaolo 152
Lombardo family 19
Antonio 157
     Forge of Vulcan 157, fig. 81
Tullio 82, 134
     all’antica style of 134
     (?) Bust of Marcus Aurelius (Naples) 134, fig. 69
     on the paragone 153
     Prudence (Vendramin tomb, Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo) 82
     restoration of Hellenistic Muse 136, fig. 71
     will and tomb of 101
Lorenzetti
Ambrogio
     drawing of Lysippan ‘Venus’ 110
     frescoes in Palazzo Pubblico, Siena 110
Pietro 20
Lorenzetto, Madonna del Sasso (Rome, Pantheon) 106
Lorenzo da Pavia 184, 200–01
Lorenzo di Credi 50, 285n
Louis XI, King of France 64
Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Touraine 85
Lucian
on Apelles’ ‘Calumny’ 166, 181, 194–6, 256
on Apelles ‘Marriage of Alexander and Roxana’ 189
on Zeuxis 177, 196
Lucretius 192, 268
Luther, Martin, pamphlets of 21
Lysippus 110
Lysippus the Younger 27, 114, 134
medal of Pope Sixtus IV 114
self-portrait medal 27, 227, fig. 122
 
Magagni, Girolamo 56
Maiano, da, family 19
Benedetto 92
     models for S. Croce pulpit 46
Giovanni and Benedetto
     books of 22
     knowledge of Latin 22
Mainardi, Sebastiano 239
Malatesta, Sigismondo 186–7, 273–4
Manetti, Antonio
on Brunelleschi’s education 19
on Brunelleschi as poet 169
on painting of Florentine Baptistery 31
on S. Maria degli Angeli, Florence 180
Mansionario, Giovanni, Historia imperialis 110
Mantegna
Andrea 17, 274
     as adviser on antiquities 86
     antiquarian interests of 104, 136, 238
     archaeological accuracy of 118, 124, 125–6
     as architect 68
     assertive personality of 106
     boat trip on Lake Garda 127–8
     bronzi finti of 154–5
     brother-in-law to Giovanni Bellini 184, 200
     bust of Faustina the Elder 76–7, 80, fig. 34
     Camera Picta, Castello, Mantua 126, 169, 232
          dedication tablet 232
          self-portrait in 232
          vault roundels 126, fig. 64
     Circumcision (Florence, Uffizi) 153, 155
     collection of antiquities 79, 81
     as connoisseur of antiquities 86
     decoration of chapel in Castello, Mantua 256
     decoration of chapel in Belvedere, Vatican 63, 66, 77, 125
     as diplomat 66
     drawings of
          Calumny of Apelles drawing 196–8, 258, 290n, fig. 95
               engraving after, by Mocetto 198, 258, fig. 96
          Ignorance and the Fall of Humanity (London, British Museum) 261, 268
          Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Florence, Uffizi) 261–2
     engravings of 41–2
          Bacchanal 257
          Battle of the Sea-Gods 44, 252, 257, fig. 143
          Entombment 42, 256, fig. 17
          Flagellation 256–7, fig. 142
     as familiaris 62
     fantasia of 200
     and Francesco Gonzaga 76, 78, 206, 272, 277
     frescoes in Ovetari Chapel, Padua 33
          St James before Herod 118, 126, fig. 55
     funerary chapel of 101, 102, 104–6, fig. 47
          Baptism 105
          Families of Christ and St John 105
     gifts to Lorenzo de’ Medici 77, 78
     Giovanni Santi on 156–7, 169, 275
     house of 68–9, 70, 76, 81, fig. 31
     intellectual aspirations of 20, 268
     knowledge of Latin 20, 22
     letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici 30, fig. 9
     letters to his Gonzaga patrons 272
     and Ludovico Gonzaga 62, 63, 68
     married to Jacopo Bellini’s daughter 118
     materials, depiction of 153, 157
     monochromatic paintings of 153, 156, 256
     as new Apelles 268–9
     owned drawings after the Antique 124–5
     paintings of
          Agony in the Garden (Tours) 125–6, fig. 63 (detail)
          Judith, listed in 1492 Medici inventory 76
          Judith and Dido 155–6, fig. 78
          Introduction of the Cult of Cybele 157, 198, 200, fig. 80
          Madonna of the Quarries (Florence, Uffizi) 77
          Madonna della Vittoria (Paris, Louvre) 68
          St George 266–8, fig. 149
          St Sebastian (Paris, Louvre) 55, 155, fig. 79 (detail)
          St Sebastian (Venice, Ca d’Oro) 26, 78
          St Sebastian (Vienna) 22, 123, 126, 155, 266–8, fig. 135
          Triumphs of Caesar (Hampton Court) 126–7, 187
          Verona, S. Zeno, altarpiece 125, 292n
     paintings of, for Isabella d’Este 276
          Comus (Paris, Louvre) 200
          Pallas Expelling the Vices (Paris, Louvre) 192
          Parnassus (Paris, Louvre) 183
     and the paragone 155, 161, 256
     and perspective 33, 257
     ‘professore de antiquità’ 126
     seals of 63
     self-portrait bust 102, 104–5, 210, 232, fig. 38
     as source for Dürer 252
     Squarcione on 156
     study after a Trajanic relief 125, fig. 62
     titles of 63
     tomb of 101
     understanding of Roman techniques 126
     Vasari on 63, 156, 266
     visits to his workshop 76, 272
Francesco 105
Ludovico 20, 286n
Mantua
Casa Giocosa at 18, 19
Castello, Camera Picta 126, 169, 232
     camerino of Isabella d’Este in 183, 186, 199–200, 205, 276
     chapel of 256
Gonzaga court of 6, 9, 12, 17, 85, 141, 169, 272
house of Giulio Romano 81
house of Mantegna 68–9, 70, 76, 81, fig. 31
S. Andrea, funerary chapel of Mantegna 102–6
S. Sebastiano 68
Marcanova, Giovanni 118
Marcello, Jacopo Antonio 266
Marcus Aurelius
drawings after 119, 123, 124, fig. 61
restoration of, by Cristoforo di Geremia 123, 135
small bronze of, by Filarete 79, 123, fig. 60
Marsilio, Antonio 106
Martial 25
Martin V, Pope 62
Martini
Francesco di Giorgio 65, 66
     architectural treatise of 67, 68–9, 180, 232
     self-portrait of 232, fig. 126
Simone 65, 206, 211, 212
Masaccio 20, 145–6, 178
as dedicatee of Alberti’s On Painting 20
Enthronement of St Peter (Florence, S. Maria del Carmine) 211
handwriting of 27
Landino on 275
Trinity (Florence, S. Maria Novella) 32
Masolino, Feast of Herod (Castiglione Olona) 32
Master ES, engravings of 39–40, 254, 256
St John the Evangelist engraving 39, fig. 13
Master of Frankfurt, The Artist and his Wife 222–5, fig. 118
Master PM, Adam and Eve engraving 43, fig. 19
Maximilian I, Emperor 75, 274
Mazzoni, Guido 64
Meckenem, Israhel van, The Artist and his Wife engraving 222, fig. 117
Medici, de’, family 65, 228–9
archive in Florence 12
Carlo di Cosimo 80, 274
Cosimo ‘il Vecchio’ 67, 71, 89, 100, 136, 228
Duke Cosimo I 11, 59, 89
Giovanni di Cosimo 80, 186–7, 274
Giovanni di Lorenzo (later Pope Leo X) 60
Giuliano di Piero 228, 231
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco 132, 172, 269
Lorenzo di Piero, ‘the Magnificent’ 9, 30, 65, 78, 228
     and Bertoldo di Giovanni 30, 58, 62
     circle of 170, 194, 240
     collection of antiquities 81, 86
     commissioned artists’ tombs 89, 91–2, 95, 97, 215
     Giardino di S. Marco of 58–9
     poetry of 172
     visit to Mantegna 76, 79, 272
Piero di Cosimo, ‘the Gouty’ 27, 69, 79, 100, 123, 124
Mercades, Berenguer 276
Metrodorus 18
Michelangelo 6, 8, 10–11, 66, 209
adviser on the Laocoön 86, 131, 137–40
twelve apostles for Florence cathedral 69
Condivi on 11, 132
copy after Schongauer 40
David (Florence, Accademia) 69–70, 252
drawings for Sebastiano del Piombo 152
education and training of 17, 58
handwriting of 30, fig. 85
house of 70
on the paragone 152
Piero Soderini on 277
poems of 3, 20, 170–72, fig. 85
presentation drawings by 79
Sistine Chapel ceiling decoration 258–9
Sleeping Cupid (lost) 132–4
Taddei Tondo (London, Royal Academy) 79
Vasari on 10
Michele ‘figlio di Bartolommeo barbiere da Vicenza’ 58
Michelino da Besozzo 37
Michelozzo di Bartolommeo 67
Michiel
Andrea 64
Marcantonio 37, 82, 276
     on Antonello’s St Jerome in His Study 264
     on the death of Raphael 106
     on Giorgione’s Tempesta 176
Migliorotti, Atalante 65
Milan
house of Leone Leoni 81
Sforza court of 9, 12, 61, 168, 186–7
Mino da Fiesole 136
Mocetto, Girolamo, Calumny of Apelles engraving 198, 258, fig. 96
model-book drawings 37–8, 40, 250
Monaco, Guglielmo 63, 235–6
Montagnana Fiorentina 65
Montorsoli, restoration of Apollo Belvedere 132
Muffel, Jakob 274
 
Nanni di Banco 64, 65
Assumption of the Virgin (Florence cathedral, Porta della Mandorla) 65
Four Crowned Saints (Florence, Orsanmichele) 65
Nanni di Miniato 85–6
Naples 65, 276
Aragonese court of 9
Castel Nuovo, bronze doors of 63, 236
Neri di Bicci 35
Nero, Emperor, Domus Aurea (Golden House) of 72, 96, 128–31, 140, 170, 198, 240
Neroccio de’ Landi, inventory of 53, 80
Neudörfer, Johann 75
Niccoli, Niccolò 85
Niccolò dell’Arca 277
Niccolò di Alemagna 53
Niccolò fu Michele di San Lio 36–7
Nicholas V, Pope 119
numismatics, interest in 114–15
Nuremberg 65, 70, 74, 79, 240
‘School for Poets’ in 170
 
Odoni, Andrea 82
Orcagna, Andrea 212, 213
Ordeaschi, Francesca 189
Orvieto cathedral
façade reliefs 110
frescoes in Cappella di S. Brizio 131
Ovid 21, 175
on the birth of Venus 193
Fasti 173, 200
 
Pacher, Michael, St Wolfgang altarpiece 43
Pacioli, Luca 61
Padua 9
Carrara court of 4, 5, 6, 110, 178
painter(s), see artist(s)
painting(s)
and poetry 1–2, 178, 180
as activity of princes and emperors 18
     worthy of a courtier 17
challenge of sculpture 151–2
as functional objects 3
as liberal art 163, 166
as mechanical art 1–2
principles of 18
as ‘works of art’ 3
painting and sculpture
as liberal arts 63, 141, 279
as mechanical arts 66–7
paragone between 141–61, 270
Palma Vecchio, Portrait of a Poet 173, fig. 86
paragone between ancient and modern 132, 134, 268, 269–70
painting and poetry 1–2, 178, 180
painting and sculpture 141–61, 270
Paride da Ceresara 182, 200, 277
Parler, Peter, self-portrait bust of 231, fig. 125
Parmigianino, Francesco
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror 72, 217, 245, 248, 270, fig. 112
Parrhasius 72, 105
Pasqualino, Messer Antonio 264
Pasti, Matteo de’ 27
Pavia, Certosa, façade plinth decoration 114
Pericles 232
Perino del Vaga, Hunt of Meleager drawing 204, fig. 101
Perotti, Niccolò, Latin primer of 20, 22
perspective, geometric 9, 13, 14
in Alberti’s On Painting 9, 31, 247, 260
in Brunelleschi 31–2, 147
in Piero della Francesca 33, 246–7, 248, 266
Perugia
Collegio del Cambio 218
S. Domenico 213
Perugino, Pietro 65, 173, 200, 277
Battle of Love and Chastity 173, 182–3, 204, 276, fig. 88
and Isabella d’Este 181–3, 185, 205, 276, 277
Ludovico Sforza’s agent on 275
self-portrait of 218, fig. 116
Peruzzi, Baldassare 106
Petrarch, Francesco 4–6, 110, 173, 212
legacy in Padua 7
on Simone Martini 206
     his portrait of Laura 212
works of 21
     Africa 110
     De viris illustribus 112
Petrucciolo, Cola, self-portrait of 213, fig. 105
Phidias 119, 165, 206–7, 232
Philip the Fair, Duke of Burgundy 66, 74–5
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy 66, 74
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 142, 199–200, 207, 259, 290n
on mimesis and fantasia 186
on the paragone 142
as source for Raphael’s Galatea 193
     for Titian’s Bacchanal 204
     for Titian’s Worship of Venus 202–3
Philostratus the Younger, Imagines 186, 199–200, 202, 204
Pia, Emilia 143
Piancaldoli 93
Pico, Pandolfo 106
Pienza, cathedral altarpieces 276
Piero di Cosimo 177, 273
Discovery of Honey 173, fig. 87
Misfortunes of Silenus (Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum) 173
Piero della Francesca 14
education of 20
Flagellation (Urbino) 13, 33, 245–8, 254, 257, 264, fig. 136
handling of colour and texture 248
and perspective 33, 246–7, 248, 266
On Perspective in Painting 6, 20, 21, 33, 247
     disegno, commensuratio and colorare 247
as town councillor 65
Trattato d’abaco 30
use of clay models 50
Piero da Vinci, Ser 19
Pietro da Milano 63, 274
Pietro da Novellara, Fra 185, 278
Pieruzzi, Antonino 274
Pino, Paolo, Dialogue on Painting 159
Pinturicchio, Bernardino
and the Domus Aurea decorations 128, 130, fig. 67
frescoes in Borgia Apartments, Vatican 37
frescoes in Bufalini Chapel, Aracoeli, Rome 130
frescoes in Castel S. Angelo, Rome 131
frescoes in Piccolomini Library, Siena cathedral 37, 131
frescoes in S. Maria Maggiore, Spello 218
self-portrait of 218–20, fig. 103
Pirckheimer, Willibald 31, 74, 170, 271
Pisanello, Antonio 18, 286n
collection of silver coins 80
Diva Faustina drawing 112–13, fig. 51
drawings of 37, 111
     after the antique 39, 113, 118
as familiaris 61
gift to Leonello d’Este 78, 112
image of ‘Julius Caesar’ 112
medals of 274
     Emperor John VIII Palaeologus 22, 111, fig. 4
perspective drawing (Paris, Louvre) 32
portrait of Filippo Maria Visconti 206
portrait of Leonello d’Este (Bergamo) 168
praise of 165, 168, 206
Vision of St Eustace (London, National Gallery) 250
workshop drawings 118
Pisano
Andrea, bronze doors of 145
Giovanni, Pisa cathedral pulpit 110
     inscriptions on 179, 289n
Nicola, Pisa Baptistery pulpit 110
     workshop of 67
Pistoia, S. Domenico 90
Pius II, Pope 276
Plato 18
bust of, in Bellini collection 80, 136
Pliny the Elder 18, 87, 198
on Apelles 131, 189, 193, 206
Natural History 21, 22, 72, 190
on Zeuxis 79, 187, 190
Pliny the Younger, Laurentian villa of 69
Plutarch 126
Poblet, Catalonia, burial chapel of Alfonso of Aragon 276
poesie 173, 176
poetry, as liberal art 2
Poggio a Caiano, Villa Medici 76
Poliziano Angelo 172, 215, 240
epitaphs for artists’ cenotaphs 89, 92, 95, 215
Stanze per la Giostra 172–3, 193, 198
so-called Tagebuch of 179
Polyclitus 81, 100, 206
Pollaiuolo
Antonio 52, 58, 261, 264, 275
     Battle of the Nudes engraving 42, 158, 252, 254–6, 261, 264, fig. 18
     cartonum, owned by Squarcione 43, 262
     figure-drawing of 262
     figure-types of 44, 159
     Hercules and the Giants, engraving after 42–3
     bronze Fluting Marsyas (attrib.) 55, fig. 27
     as ‘maestro di disegno’ 42
     ‘Nude man seen from front, side and back’ drawing 53, fig. 28
          inscription on 275
     A Prisoner Led Before a Judge drawing 261, 268, fig. 146
     tomb of Sixtus IV (Rome, St Peter’s) 170
     will of 97
Antonio and Piero, workshop of 58
     tomb of, in S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome 97, fig. 43
Pontormo, Jacopo 40, 273
Posculo, Ubertino 206
Prague, St Vitus 231
Praxiteles 119, 132, 206, 207
Propertius 281n
Prospettivo Milanese, the 83, 128–9, 137, 170
Ptolemy 21
Pucci, Giannozzo 269
Pygmalion 206
Pyrrho 18
 
Quercia, Jacopo della 37, 64, 65, 81
 
Raffaello da Montelupo 93
Raimondi, Marcantonio, engravings by 264
(circle of) Apollo Belvedere 44, 132, fig. 21
Judgement of Paris 259
Massacre of the Innocents 257–8, fig. 144
Quos Ego 259
Raphael 6, 8, 126, 152
‘archaeological method’ of 140
as architect of St Peter’s 68
Baldassare Castiglione (Paris, Louvre) 210
as courtier 1, 242
death of 6, 106
drawing of Roman ruins 140, fig. 75
drawings for engraving 264
     Massacre of the Innocents, drawings for 257–8, 260
epitaph of, by Pietro Bembo 106–7
figure-drawing of 262
friendship with Castiglione 242
Galatea 187, 198, fig. 97
‘Hunt of Meleager’ 204
‘Indian Triumph of Bacchus’ 200, 204
intellectual status of 140, 259
knowledge of Latin 21
letter to Baldassare Castiglione 187
letter to Pope Leo X 7, 20, 140
poetry of 169
‘prefect of antiquities’ 140
purchase of Palazzo Caprini 70, 106
(?) self-portrait drawing (Oxford, Ashmolean) 242
(?) Self-portrait (Florence, Uffizi) 242
(?) Self-portrait (lost, formerly Kraków) 72, 240, 242–3, fig. 32
Stanza della Segnatura decoration 258
survey of ancient Rome 140
stufetta of Cardinal Bibbiena (Vatican) 131, 140, 193
tomb of, in the Pantheon, Rome 101, 106–8
Transfiguration (Vatican, Pinacoteca) 152
‘recta manus’ of the painter 215, 217, 225, 228, 242
Regensburg 65
Regiomontanus 70
Riario, Cardinal Raffaello 132
Riemenschneider, Tilman 65
rilievo schiacciato (‘squashed relief’) 147–8
Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano 27
Robbia, della, family 19
Andrea 91
Luca 91
     as dedicatee of Alberti’s On Painting 20
     Florence cathedral altarpieces project 46
Roberti, Ercole de’ 76
Roman, of Hellenistic type, Jupiter (Naples) 137, fig. 73
Roman, c.1460, drawing after Marcus Aurelius 123, fig. 61
Romano, Giancristoforo 86, 137–40
as adviser to Isabella d’Este 61, 86
as courtier/debater in The Book of the Courtier 61, 143–4, 151–2, 168, 279
Rome
Arch of Constantine, reliefs of 140
Castel S. Angelo, frescoes 131
Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero 72, 96, 128–31, 140, 170, 198, 240
Marcus Aurelius 119, 123
Palazzo Caprini, the ‘House of Raphael’ 70, 106
Pantheon, tomb of Raphael 101, 106–8
papal court of 12
of Pope Sixtus IV 27, 227
Quirinal Horsetamers 118–19, 206
Renaissance papacy of 7
SS Apostoli, della Rovere palace 81
S. Maria in Aracoeli, Bufalini Chapel 130
S. Maria sopra Minerva
     Carafa chapel 86, 129–30
     tomb of Andrea Bregno 97–100, 220, fig. 44
     tomb of Fra Angelico 89, 93–5, fig. 40
St Peter’s 67
     bronze doors 114, 234–8
S. Pietro in Vincoli
     garden of Giuliano della Rovere 132
     tomb of the Pollaiuolo brothers 97, fig. 43
Trajan’s Column, drawings after 124, 125
Villa Farnesina 189, 198
Rosselli, Francesco, inventory of 21, 53
Rosso Fiorentino, inventory of 21–2, 280n
Rovere, Cardinal Giuliano della (later Pope Julius II) 44, 81
garden at S. Pietro in Vincoli 132
Rucellai, Giovanni, Zibaldone of 42, 276
 
Samuele da Tradate 128
San Gimignano, S. Agostino, frescoes by Gozzoli 30, 35, 228
Sannazaro, Jacopo, Arcadia 176
Sansovino, Jacopo 71, 131
Santi, Giovanni 13
Cronaca rimata (‘rhymed chronicle’) 6, 20, 169
     on Federigo da Montefeltro 76
     on Mantegna 76, 156–7, 169, 275
     on King René d’Anjou 17
Sanudo, Marin 91
Sanvito, Bartolommeo 30
Savonarola
Fra Girolamo 36, 79, 210–11, 268
Michele 57–8
Scardeone 105, 156
Schiavone, Giorgio, Virgin and Child 192, 224, fig. 91 (detail)
Schongauer, Martin, engravings of 40, fig. 15
Scopas 207
sculptor(s), see artist(s)
Sebastiano del Piombo 151–2
Death of Adonis (Florence, Uffizi) 175
Raising of Lazarus (London, National Gallery) 152
Segni, Antonio 3, 79, 268
Seneca 173
Sforza
Bianca Maria 211
Francesco 149–50, 232
Galeazzo Maria 75, 234, 273
Ludovico, il Moro 61, 66, 86, 168, 272
     agent of, comments on painters 275
Siena 66
cathedral, Piccolomini Library frescoes 37, 131
Fonte Gaia 110
Palazzo Pubblico 112
Spedale della Scala 67, 101–2
Signorelli, Luca 65, 71, 129
frescoes in Cappella di S. Brizio, Orvieto 131
Sixtus IV, Pope 27, 81, 114, 123, 227
Socrates 18
Soderini, Piero 277
Sodoma
gift to Pope Leo X 78
inventory of 56, 80
Marriage of Alexander and Roxana 189, 198, fig. 89
title of 64
Solari, Cristoforo, Venus and Apollo Belvedere 134
Spagnoli, Battista 105
Spoleto, cathedral, tomb of Fra Filippo Lippi 89, 95–7, 130, 220, fig. 41
sprezzatura 180
Squarcialupi, Antonio 92
Squarcione, Francesco 43, 52
casts after sculpture, for study 52, 55
circle of 190, 192
criticism of Mantegna 156
owned Pollaiuolo cartonum 43, 262
studium of 58
workshop training curriculum 57
Stefano, ‘nature’s ape’ 178
Stethaimer, Hans, tomb of, in St Martin, Landshut 97, fig. 42
Strozzi family
Agostino 277–8
Filippo 273
Palla 69
Tito Vespasiano 168
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars 111, 286n
Summonte, Pietro 276
Syracuse, King of 78
 
Taccola, Mariano 180
Taddei, Taddeo 79
Taddeo di Bartolo, Assumption altarpiece (Montepulciano) 215, fig. 106 (detail)
frescoes in Palazzo Pubblico, Siena 112
self-portrait of 215, fig. 106
three-dimensional models 46–57
cast drapery model 52
the lay-figure or manikin 47, 48, 52
in wax, clay, plaster, terracotta or bronze 47, 79–80
live models 47
Titian 7, 204–7
Bacchanal of the Andrians 204–5, fig. 102
Bacchus and Ariadne (London, National Gallery) 205
La Schiavona 161, 210, fig. 82
Man in a Blue Sleeve (London, National Gallery) 210
paintings for Alfonso d’Este 7, 201
Venus Anadyomene 193, fig. 93
Worship of Venus 202–3, fig. 99
Torrigiano, Pietro 58
Tovaglia, Andrea 125
Trajan, Emperor 140
Trento 66
Tura, Cosmè 102
house of 68
praise of 168
style of 168, 274
 
Uccello, Paolo
The Flood (Florence, S. Maria Novella) 33
and perspective 32–3, 273
tomb of, formerly S. Spirito, Florence 90–91
Urbino, Montefeltro court of 12, 21, 143, 169
 
valet de chambre 61, 62, 71
Valla, Lorenzo 93, 164
Vanni, Andrea 62, 65
Varchi, Benedetto, lectures on the paragone 142, 144, 148, 152, 159
Vasari, Giorgio
on Antonello da Messina 89–90
on artists as architects 7
on Benozzo Gozzoli 90
as biographer 11
on Botticelli 268–9
on Bramante 19
on Castagno 11
on Il Cecca 92–3
on Domenico Veneziano 11
on Donatello 12, 69, 135, 285n
on Ghiberti 101, 132
on Giorgione 158–9, 175
on Giotto 11
on Leonardo da Vinci 19, 177
Lives of the Artists 10, 89, 211
     woodcut portraits in 212
on Lorenzo di Credi 50
on Luca della Robbia 91
on Mantegna 63, 156, 266
on Michelangelo 10–11
on Parmigianino 245
on Piero della Francesca 50, 246
on Piero di Cosimo 273, 277
on Pinturicchio 130–31
on Pontormo 40
on the primacy of drawing 152–3
on Raphael 106
on Sansovino 71
on Signorelli 71
on Simone Martini 211
on Sodoma 78
on Torrigiano 58–9
on Uccello 32, 273
on Venetian artists 11
on Verrocchio 56, 285n
Vatican
Belvedere, chapel decorated by Mantegna 63, 66, 77, 125
     decoration of 198
     sculpture court 81
Borgia Apartments, fresco decoration of 37
St Nicholas chapel frescoes 121
Stanza della Segnatura 258
Vecchietta, Lorenzo di Pietro 67
funerary chapel of 101–2
     Risen Christ 102, 286n, fig. 45
     Virgin and Child with Saints 102, 286n, fig. 46
self-portrait of 217–18, fig. 114
Vendramin, Gabriele 37
Venice 7, 9
Campo di SS Giovanni e Paolo 198
Doge’s Palace, frescoes by Gentile da Fabriano (lost) 71
Fondaco de’ Tedeschi decoration 175
S. Bartolommeo di Rialto 271
Verino, Ugolino 206, 207
Verona, Palazzo Scaligero, frescoes 111, fig. 49
Verrocchio
Andrea del 136, 207, 285n
     workshop of 50, 56
     drapery studies in brush on linen 51
Tommaso 136
Vespasiano da Bisticci 71
Vespucci, Giovanni 173
Vianello, Michele 183
Villani, Filippo 164, 178, 180, 212
Virgil 173
Vischer, Peter 75
Visconti, Gaspare 211
Vitruvius 78
De Architectura 21, 22, 126
on human proportions 252
Vittorino da Feltre 18
school of, the Casa Giocosa 18, 19
Volterra, Cardinal of 277
 
Wenceslas IV of Bohemia 231
Weyden, Rogier van der 8, 12, 71, 266
Würzburg 65
Ypres 71
 
Zeuxis 72, 79, 190, 206–7
painting of a centaur family 177, 196, 289n
Zoppo, Marco, drawings of 43, 52
Virgin and Child with Angels 190–91, fig. 90
Zovenzoni, Raffaele 80, 191