by Peter Burke
*Valla, Giorgio, humanist, 51
*Valla, Lorenzo, Roman humanist, 50, 78, 122–3, 131, 146, 201, 208, 210
*Varchi, Benedetto, Florentine writer, 146, 156
*Vasari, Giorgio, Tuscan artist and art historian, 6, 11–12, 20, 27, 32–3, 48, 53–4, 58, 66–7, 86, 88–90, 93, 99, 102, 113–16, 129, 134, 141, 153–4, 156–9, 167, 169, 179–80, 183, 190, 192, 194, 201, 203, 205–6, 209, 248, 251, 255
*Vecchietta, Lorenzo, Tuscan painter, 91, 96–7
Vendramin, Gabriele, Venetian patrician, 105
*Veneziano, Domenico, Venetian painter, 102
Veronese, Paolo, artist, 138, 253
*Verrocchio, Andrea, Florentine artist, 57, 87, 103
*Vicentino, Nicolò, musician, 161, 164, 168
Vico, Enea, from Parma, engraver, 202
*Vida, Marco Girolamo, of Cremona, poet, 22, 168
Villani, Giovanni, Florentine chronicler, 210
*Viola, Alfonso della, of Ferrara, musician, 77
Virgil, 22, 126, 146, 162, 181, 196
Visconti, Giangaleazzo, ruler of Milan, 42, 243
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus, ancient
Roman writer on architecture, 21, 118
*Vittorino da Feltre, humanist, 79, 85, 105, 210, 244
*Vivarini, Alvise, Venetian painter, 98, 102
Voltaire, French philosophe and historian, 33
Wackernagel, Martin, German art historian, 38
Warburg, Aby, German cultural historian, 5, 12, 37–8, 117, 133–4, 171, 190, 211
Weber, Max, German sociologist, 5, 224, 226, 262
*Weerbecke, Gaspar van, Flemish musician, 62, 245–6
Weyden, Roger van der, Flemish painter, 157, 256–7
Whistler, James A. M., American painter, 90
*Willaert, Adriaan, Flemish musician, 62–3, 84, 119, 164
Williams, Raymond, British critic, 4, 187
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim,
German art historian, 34
Wittkower, Margot, 41
Wittkower, Rudolf, German-American art historian, 41
Wölffl in, Heinrich, Swiss art historian, 25–6, 37, 39, 250
*Zarlino, Gioseffe, writer on music, 84, 164
*Zenale, Bernardino, of Treviso, painter, 82
Zhu Xi, Chi nese philosopher, 12