BOOK I.

FLORENTINE SCHOOL.

EPOCH I. _Origin of the revival of painting_--_Association and methods of the old painters_--_Series of Tuscan artists before the time of Cimabue and Giotto._ SECT. I. 1

_Florentine painters who lived after Giotto to the end of the fifteenth century._ SECT. II. 51

_Origin and progress of engraving on copper and wood._ SECT. III. 105

EPOCH II. _Vinci, Bonarruoti, and other celebrated artists, form the most flourishing era of this school_ 147

EPOCH III. _The imitators of Michelangiolo_ 229

EPOCH IV. _Cigoli and his Associates improve the style of painting_ 280

EPOCH V. _Pietro da Cortona and his followers_ 335