ing Faun, 175;
Signorelli's pictures 123;
drawings, 193

Urbino: Francesco, 255, 256, 273, 314

Urbino:
Francesco Maria, Duke of, finds fault with the slow progress of the Tomb
of Julius II., 55, 62-64;
Paul III. arranges a new contract, 67, 69, 207;
final contract, 225, 226, 290

Urbino: the master thinks of retiring to, 66

Urbino: the Palace of the Duke, 290

Valdarno, 264

Valori: Baccio, the Apollo presented to, 205, 207

Valentino: Duke, sends the god of Love to Mantua, 22, 23

Valerio Cioli, 262

Valerio de Vincenca, 270

Valpaio: Benvenuto, 207

Valuation of works of art, 314

Vansitelli, 251

Varchi:
Lectures and criticisms on the sonnets, 86;
oration, 262

Vari: _see_ Metello

Vasari:
Giorgio, his famous book, 92, 97, 98;
preserves the broken fragments of the arm of the David, 117;
the story of the Gonfaloniere, 118;
the St. Matthew, 120;
the tondi, 121, 122;
the Cartoon, 126;
seventeen statues for the Tomb of Julius completed, 130;
a list of assistants, 150, 151;
his fable of the vault, 158, 163;
the Apollo, 204;
he completes the works at San Lorenzo, 209, 211;
how Sebastiano prepared the wall, 217;
the master's fall, 218;
the Day of Judgment, 222;
the Cappella Paolino, 232;
he sees the master working at night, 235;
a Pieta, 237;
the cornice, 238;
St. Peter's, 241;
plots, 243;
the bridge of Nanni, 245;
the church for the Florentines in Rome, 249;
the medal of Leone, 252;
he holds another Buonarroto at the font, 255;
a letter to, referring to the death of Urbino, 255, 256;
the master's will, 269;
he receives the master's body in Florence, 260;
and describes the opening of the coffin in Santa Croce, 261;
and the obsequies at San Lorenzo, 262;
he designs the Tomb, 262;
and enumerates the pupils, 263

Vauban: studies the fortifications at San Miniato, 203

Vault:
of the Sistine Chapel, 41-49;
works begun, 149;
painting begins, 151;
assistants dismissed, 156;
mould on the fresco, 161;
exposed to view, 163;
finished, 165;
a description, 167-179, 291

Vecchio:
Palazzo, 116;
cartoon for, 124;
Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus, 204

Venice:
the master invited to, 78;
flees to, 202;
Sebastiano refers to, 206, 290, 327

Venusti: _see_ Marcello

Victory: the, a marble statue in the Bargello, 129, 228

Vincenzo: _see_ Borghini

Vinci: _see_ Lionardo

Vincula:
San Pietro in, Bramante's work needs support, 32;
the Moses placed in, 33
Virgil, 76, 298, 303

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