Giulio Romano. Courtyard of the Palazzo del Te, Mantua. ca. 1527–34

Travels of some artists in the 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