Choose from the list below to learn how to use the feature's special components.

Zoom Technology

Pop-Up Windows

Footnotes and Bibliography

Printing Options

Audio Component

Catalogue Numbers Zoom Technology

The images in this feature have been enabled with technology which allows visitors to see the fine details of each work.

To "zoom in" and explore the details, select an image repeatedly with your mouse.

To return to the full view of the work immediately, select the "Back to full view" icon: To return to the full view frame by frame, select the "Zoom out" icon:

BACK TO TOP Pop-Up Windows

The images in this feature have been placed in pop-up windows. To access a pop-up, select an image with your mouse; to close a pop-up, select the gray "x" in the bottom left-hand corner of the window.

BACK TO TOP Footnotes and Bibliography

Throughout the feature, footnotes are indicated in blue, as superscript numbers. For example:

"Alas! This man will never do anything, for he begins by thinking about the end before the beginning of his work."²

To view the footnote, select the number with your mouse. The text will then "anchor down" to the corresponding footnote:

2. Vasari-Milanesi 1906, vol. 4, p. 47: "Oimè! Costui non è per far nulla, da che comincia a pensare alla fine innanzi il principio dell'opera."

To see the corresponding bibliographic entry, "scroll down" the page to the end of the Footnotes section and select Bibliography, as follows:

For references, abbreviations, and sources, see the Bibliography.

Select the letter of the last name of the author for whom you are looking, or browse the Bibliography.

To return to the Footnotes section, select the "Back to" link at the top of the Bibliography page, as follows:

Back to Footnotes

BACK TO TOP Printing Options

The following icon appears when a printer-friendly version is available for a section of this feature:

Select the icon to view the page, then choose "Print" on your browser.

To print a from a pop-up, select  PRINT THIS PAGE, located in the gray "Close" bar at the bottom of each window.

BACK TO TOP Audio Component

Please note that to access an audio clip, you must have RealPlayer.

To begin an audio clip, press the "Play" arrow.

To view the details of an image while listening to the audio clip, select the image repeatedly with your mouse.

BACK TO TOP Catalogue Numbers

Throughout this feature, works are identified by their catalogue numbers (cat. no[s].) which can be referenced in the Checklist.