[Footnote 1: The following are among the valuable works which have been given to the public by Mr. Ottley:--The Italian School of Design, being a series of Fac-similes of Original Drawings, &c.--An Inquiry into the History of Engraving.--The Stafford Gallery.--A Series of Plates engraved after the Paintings and Sculptures of the most eminent masters of the early Florentine School, during the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. This work forms a complete illustration of the first volume of Lanzi.--A Catalogue of the National Gallery.--Fac-similes of Specimens of Early Masters, &c.] CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Page _Advertisement_ iii _Preface by the Author_ i _Biographical Notice by the Translator_ xli HISTORY OF PAINTING IN LOWER ITALY. BOOK I. FLORENTINE SCHOOL. EPOCH I. _Origin of the revival of painting_--_Association and methods of the old painters_--_Series of Tuscan artists before the time of Cimabue and Giotto._ SECT. I. 1 _Florentine painters who lived after Giotto to the end of the fifteenth century._ SECT. II. 51 _Origin and progress of engraving on copper and wood._ SECT. III. 105 EPOCH II. _Vinci, Bonarruoti, and other celebrated artists, form the most flourishing era of this school_ 147 EPOCH III. _The imitators of Michelangiolo_ 229 EPOCH IV. _Cigoli and his Associates improve the style of painting_ 280 EPOCH V. _Pietro da Cortona and his followers_ 335 BOOK II. SIENESE SCHOOL. EPOCH I. _The old masters_ 372 EPOCH II. _Foreign painters at Siena_--_Origin and progress of the modern style in that city_ 406 EPOCH III. _The art having declined through the disasters of the state, is revived by the labours of Salimbeni and his sons_ 433 PREFACE.