Contents
Chapter 1: The Master
(Raphael and Giulio Romano, The Holy Family, or The Pearl; School of Raphael, The Visitation; Sebastiano del Piombo, Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, His Secretary, and Two Geographers; Raphael, Portrait of a Cardinal)
Chapter 2: Deciphering Raphael
(Raphael, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi; Leonardo da Vinci,The Virgin of the Rocks; Raphael, The School of Athens)
Chapter 3: The New Apocalypse
Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible
(Raphael, The Holy Family with an Oak Tree; Raphael, Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami; Giovanni Francesco Penni, The Transfiguration)
Chapter 5: The Two Baby Jesuses
(Ambrogio Bergognone, Christ among the Doctors; Bernardino Luini, The Holy Family)
Chapter 6: Little Ghosts
Chapter 7: Botticelli, Heretic Painter
(Sandro Botticelli, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, I, II, III; Sandro Botticelli, The Mystical Nativity)
Chapter 8: The Path to Glory
Chapter 9: Titian’s Secret
(Titian, The Glory)
Chapter 10: Charles and the Lance of Christ
(Titian, Carlos V at the Battle of Mühlberg)
Chapter 11: The Prado’s Holy Grail
(Juan de Juanes, The Last Supper; Juan de Juanes, Christ with the Eucharist; Juan de Juanes, The Immaculate Conception)
Chapter 12: Mister X
(Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Fray Julián of Alcalá’s Vision of the Ascension of the Soul of King Philip II of Spain)
Chapter 13: The Garden of Earthly Delights
(Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, or The Millennial Reign)
Chapter 14: The Secret Family of Brueghel the Elder
(Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Alchemist; Hans Holbein, Alphabet of Death; Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Triumph of Death)
Chapter 15: El Greco’s “Other Humanity”
(El Greco, The Dream of Philip II, or The Adoration of the Name of Jesus, An Allegory of the Holy League, and The Glory); El Greco, The Incarnation; El Greco, The Crucifixion)
Chapter 16: Checkmate to the Master
Epilogue: The Last Puzzle?
About Javier Sierra
Notes
List of Prado-Owned Paintings Mentioned in the Book