Introduction: The social status of the artist in the Renaissance.
1. Self-fashioning in life and art.
3. Visual self-representations; representations of the art of painting; representations of the intellectual and the manual selves.
4. The Florentine artist as witness in religious narrative; dormition, assumption, and coronation of the virgin; epiphany; the self-portrait of the Quattrocento Bottega.
5. Sculptural self-portraits within frames.
10. The Umbrian connection.
11. Venice: an isolated experiment; the papal court.
13. Parmigianino's mirror; the Medici court.
14. Cavaliere Bandinelli and his disciples in "disegno".
15. Vasari and the Cinquecento workshop.
16. Cellini and "Invidia" at court; Italian court artists to the Habsburg Dynasty.
17. Titianus Pictor et eques.
18. Leoni Sculptor Caesareus.
20. Introduction: the female self.
21. The career of a "Donnesca mano".
22. The self-portraits of a "Donnesca mano".
23. "L'imperfettione...del mio ritratto".
24. The self as craftsman; Introduction; the cinquecento mano; the filial self; the pious self.
25. The craftsman in the workshop.