List of Illustrations

Plate 1Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), c. 1488–1576, ‘The Rape of Europa’, (c. 1560–2). (© Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA/Bridgeman Images)

 Titian, ‘Danae Receiving the Shower of Gold’, (1553), Prado, Madrid, Spain. (Bridgeman Images)

Plate 2Diego Velázquez, 1599–1660, ‘The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne’, (c. 1655–60), Prado, Madrid, Spain. (Giraudon/Bridgeman Images)

Plate 3Titian, ‘Portrait of King Philip II’, (1551), Prado, Madrid, Spain. (Giraudon/Bridgeman Images)

Plate 4Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., ‘Portrait of Louis-Philippe-Joseph d’Orléans, Duke of Chartres, later Duke of Orléans’, (1779), Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. (Giraudon/Bridgeman Images)

The Palais-Royal, Paris. (Getty Images)

Plate 5The Picture Gallery at Attingham Park, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. (Corbis)

Cobham Hall, Cobham, Kent. (Alamy)

Plate 6(Art historian) Bernard Berenson at his home outside Florence, Villa I Tatti, 1903. (Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Plate 7John Singer Sargent, ‘Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner’, (1888). (© Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum /Bridgeman Images)

Plate 8The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. (© Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)