Pre-oration : the historical condition
Peroration : artists' tombs
Lorenzo Ghiberti and the expressive self
Peroration : artists' collections and the extended self
Piero della Francesca and the joyful self
Mantegna and the consolable self
Michelangelo and the self-conscious self
Peroration : Botticelli and the political self
Giovanni Bellini and the surviving self
Titian and the satisfied self
Bernini and the truthful self
Post-oration : the artist as such.