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[pg 347] working at night, [235];
a Pietà, [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]