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.