Preface.

Introduction: Toothpicks and Green Hangings: Nicholas Penny.

Part I: The Creation of the Object: Patricia L. Reilly.

What You See Is What You Get: Colour In Italian Renaissance Istoriato Ware: Steve Wharton.

‘Sculpsit Cellinius Neptunam’: The Biography of the Neptune Fountain in Cellini’s Vita: Victoria C. Gardner Coates.

Part II: The Life of the Object: Rupert Shepherd.

Banquet Plate and Renaissance Culture: A Day in the Life: Valerie Taylor.

For Use and Display: Selected Furnishings and Domestic Goods in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Interiors: James R. Lindow.

Fragments from the ‘Life Histories’ of Jewellery belonging to Prostitutes inEarly-Modern Rome: Tessa Storey.

Part III: The After-Life of the Object: Roberta J. M. Olson.

The Icon of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome: An Image and its Afterlife: Kirstin Noreen.

One Pontile, Two Pontili: The Choir Screens of Modena Cathedral: Dawn Cunningham.

The Afterlife of an Early Medieval Chapel: Giovanni Battista Ricci and Perceptions of the Christian Past in Post-Tridentine Rome: Ann Van Dijk.

The Scrittoio Della Calliope in the Palazzo Vecchio: A Tuscan Museum: Andrea M. Gáldy.

Index.