Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Summons
Chapter 2 The Conspiracy
Chapter 3 The Warrior Pope
Chapter 4 Penance
Chapter 5 Painting in the Wet
Chapter 6 The Design
Chapter 7 The Assistants
Chapter 8 The House of Buonarroti
Chapter 9 The Fountains of the Great Deep
Chapter 10 Competition
Chapter 11 A Great Quandary
Chapter 12 The Flaying of Marsyas
Chapter 13 True Colors
Chapter 14 He Shall Build the Temple of the Lord
Chapter 15 Family Business
Chapter 16 Laocoon
Chapter 17 The Golden Age
Chapter 18 The School of Athens
Chapter 19 Forbidden Fruit
Chapter 20 The Barbarous Multitudes
Chapter 21 Bologna Redux
Chapter 22 The World's Game
Chapter 23 A New and Wonderful Manner of Painting
Chapter 24 The First and Supreme Creator
Chapter 25 The Expulsion of Heliodorus
Chapter 26 The Monster of Ravenna
Chapter 27 Many Strange Forms
Chapter 28 The Armor of Faith and the Sword of Light
Chapter 29 Il Pensieroso
Chapter 30 In Evil Plight
Chapter 31 Final Touches
Epilogue: The Language of the Gods
Notes
Bibliography
Index