Note from the Series Editor. 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.