Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo – Portrait of a Halberdier (1528-1530) oil on canvas
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum

Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo – A Portrait of a Lady in Red (1532) oil on wood
Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut

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Angelo Bronzino – Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1540) oil on wood
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

Angelo Bronzino – Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1540) oil on wood
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

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Francesco Primaticcio – Interior paintings, frescos and decor at the Château de Fontainebleau

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) – Transport of the Body of St. Mark (1562-1566) oil on canvas
Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia

Paolo Veronese - The Wedding at Cana (1562-1563)
Paris, Louvre Museum

Paolo Veronese - The Feast in the House of Levi (1573)
Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Wedding Feast (c. 1566) Oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Pieter Bruegel – The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind (1568) tempera on canvas
Naples, Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte

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François Clouet – Catherine de' Medici (c. 1580) oil on panel
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

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Germain Pilon – The Three Graces; Monument to the heart of Henri II (1560-1566) marble
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Benvenuto Cellini - Perseus with the head of Medusa
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

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Andrea Palladio – Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza
work commenced by Palladio in 1550; finished by Scamozzi in 1606

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Giorgio Vasari - The Ufizzi Gallery, Florence
(looking toward the Palazzo Vecchio)

Giorgio Vasari - The Corridoio vasariano ("Vasari Corridor" )
from the Palazzo Vecchio, through the Ufizzi Gallery, across the Ponte Vecchio, to the Palazzo Pitti

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Robert Smythson – Wollaton Hall, Notthinghamshire (1580-1588)

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola – Stairway of the Farnese Palace, Caprarola, near Viterbo,
constructed for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1559-1564)

Miles H. Hodges - 2014