List of Figures

Figure 1. Martianus Capella, Marriage of Philology and Mercury or De nuptiis Philolgiae et Mercurii, 5th c., Printed 1539, Lugduni, Whipple Library, University of Cambridge

Figure 2. Attributed to the Maître de Coëtivy, Frontispiece of Book III Boethius’ ‘De Consolatione Philosophiae’, c. 1460-70, France, 241 x 165 mm, Wallace Collection

Figure 3. Alain de Lille (Alanus de Insulis), Anticlaudian, c.1400, fol. 006r, Manuscript, 210 x 141 mm, Oxford Libraries, Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 110

Figure 4. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, c. 1484-1493

Figure 5. Diagram of the sculptural panels on Antonio Pollaiuolo’s Tomb of Sixtus IV

Figure 6. Tiberio Alfarano, Plan of Old St Peter’s with its relationship to the new Basilica, 1590. Etching on Paper, 56.7 cm x 43.9 cm, Archivio of the Basilica of St Peter’s, (Bianchi, 1982, p.197, n.22)

Figure 7. Martin van Heemskirk, Grabmal Sixtus von Antonio Pollaiuolo (Drawing of Sixtus’s Tomb by Antonio Pollaiuolo),  c.1532-1536. Red Chalk on Paper, 13.6 x 21.4 cm

Figure 8. Engraving of a medal of Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484). The original medal, by an unknown artist, was made in 1481

Figure 9. Melozzo da Forlì, Pope Sixtus IV Appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, 1477, fresco removed and transferred to canvas, 370 x 315 cm

Figure 10. Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Tomb of Martin V, c.1430s, San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome

Figures 11-16. Agostino di Duccio, Details of Philosophy, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Music, Poetry, Mathematics, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, c.1449-56

Figure 17. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Rhetorica, c.1484-1493

Figure 18. Hadrianic and Antonine coin, Reverse with Tellus figure, c.170-190

Figure 19. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Rhetoric Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 20. Agostino di Duccio, Detail of Rhetoric, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, c.1449-56

Figure 21. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Grammar, c.1484-1493

Figure 22. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Grammar Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 23. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Dialectic, c.1484-1493

Figure 24. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Dialectic Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 25. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Dialectic Scorpion, c.1484-1493

Figure 26. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Geometria, c.1484-1493

Figure 27. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Geometria Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 28. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Geometria Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 29. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Geometria Satyr Figure, c.1484-1493

Figure 30. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Musica, c.1484-1493

Figure 31. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Musica Papal Keys, c.1484-1493

Figure 32. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Musica della Rovere Oak Branch, c.1484-1493

Figure 33. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Arithmetic, c.1484-1493

Figure 34. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Arithmetic Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 35. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Pope Sixtus IV, Detail of Astrology, c. 1484-1493

Figures 36. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Details of Astrology Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 37. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Details of Astrology Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 38. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Philosophia, c.1484-1493

Figures 39. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Philosophia Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 40. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Philosophia Books, c.1484-1493

Figure 41. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Theologia, c.1484-1493

Figure 42. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Angel with Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 43. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of the Trinity Head in Theology, c.1484-1493

Figure 44. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Charity, c.1484-1493

Figure 45. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Prospectiva, c.1484-1493

Figures 46. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Details of Prospectiva Inscription, c.1484-1493

Figure 47. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Details of Prospectiva Candelabrum, c.1484-1493

Figures 48-57. Master of the E Series, Mantegna Tarocchi, Series C: 21-30, c. 15th century, Engraving, Images of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, Poetry, Philosophy, Astrology, Theology.

Figure 58. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Grammatica Figure, c. 1484-1493

Figure 59. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Rhetorica Figure, c. 1484-1493

Figure 60. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Theologia Figure, c. 1484-1493

Figure 61. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Prospectiva Figure, c. 1484-1493

Figure 62. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Dialectica, c.1484-1493

Figure 63. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Astrologia, c.1484-1493

Figure 64. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Musica, c.1484-1493

Figure 65. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Rhetorica Oak Branch, c.1484-1493

Figure 66. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Dialectica Oak Branch, c.1484-1493

Figure 67. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Prospectiva Oak Branch, c.1484-1493

Figure 68. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, Detail of Musica Oak Branch, c.1484-1493

Figure 69. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Sixtus IV, c.1484-1493

Figure 70. Antonio Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Pope Innocent VIII, 1492-98

Figure 71. Michelangelo Buonarroti, Design for Tomb of Julius II, 1505

Figure 72. Attributed to Giacomo Rocchetti, after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Design for the Tomb of Julius II, 1513, by Michelangelo, ca. 1530-50. Pen and brown ink, color wash, lead stylus on Paper, 57.3 x 38.7 cm. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Figure 73. Drawing after Michelangelo Buonarroti’s project of 1513 for the tomb of Julius II, 1513