Giulio Romano. Courtyard of the Palazzo del Te, Mantua. ca. 1527–34
Travels of some artists in sixteenth-century Italy
Rosso Fiorentino. The Descent from the Cross. Commissioned for the
Chapel of the Compagnia della Croce di Giorno in the church of
San Francisco in Volterra. 1521
Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicità, Florence. Built by Filippo Brunelleschi,
1419–23. Paintings by Pontormo, 1525–28
Jacopo da Pontormo. Pietà. ca. 1526–28
Michelangelo. New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence. 1519–34
Michelangelo. Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici. New Sacristy, San Lorenzo,
Florence. 1519–34
Michelangelo and Bartolommeo Ammanati. Vestibule of the
Laurentian Library, Florence. Begun 1523; stairway designed 1558–59
Giorgio Vasari. Courtyard of Uffizi, Florence. Begun 1560
Bartolommeo Ammanati. Courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
1558–70
Overview of Palazzo Pitti in Boboli Gardens
Agnolo Bronzino. Portrait of Eleanora of Toledo and
Her Son Giovanni de’ Medici. ca. 1550
Agnolo Bronzino. Allegory of Venus. ca. 1546
Benvenuto Cellini. Saltcellar of Francis I. 1540–43
Giovanni Bologna. The Rape of the Sabine Woman. Completed 1583
Michelangelo. The Last Judgment. 1534–41
Michelangelo. The Last Judgment (detail, with self-portrait). 1534–41
Michelangelo. Pietà. ca. 1546
Michelangelo. Campidoglio, Rome (engraving by Étienne Dupérac, 1569)
Michelangelo. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Campidoglio, Rome.
Designed ca. 1545
Michelangelo. St. Peter’s, Rome, seen from the west. 1546–64;
dome completed by Giacomo della Porta, 1590
Michelangelo. Plan for St. Peter’s
Giacomo Vignola. Plan of Il Gesù, Rome. 1568
Andrea Sacchi and Jan Miel. Urban VIII Visiting Il Gesù. 1639–41
Giacomo della Porta. Façade of Il Gesù, Rome. ca. 1575–84
Giulio Romano. Courtyard of the Palazzo del Te, Mantua. ca. 1527–34
Giulio Romano. Fall of the Giants from Mount Olympus, from the
Sala dei Giganti. ca. 1530–32. Palazzo del Te, Mantua
Correggio. Jupiter and Io. ca. 1532
Correggio. The Assumption of the Virgin. Dome of cathedral, Parma, Italy.
ca. 1522–30
Parmigianino. Self-Portrait. 1524
Parmigianino. The Madonna with the Long Neck. ca. 1535
Jacopo Sansovino. Mint (left) and Library of St. Mark’s, Venice.
Begun ca. 1535–37
Andrea Palladio. Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Designed 1565
Plan of Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
Andrea Palladio. Villa Rotonda, Vicenza. ca. 1567–70
Titian. Venus of Urbino. ca. 1538
Titian. Rape of Europa (detail). 1559–62
Titian. Rape of Europa. 1559–62
Titian. Pietà. ca. 1576
Paolo Veronese. The Feast in the House of Levi. 1573
Jacopo Tintoretto. The Last Supper. 1594