"Introduction Ana Debenedetti, Victoria and Albert Museum Part 1: Botticelli in his own time Introduction Michelle O'Malley, Warburg Institute 1. Sandro Botticelli and the birth of modern portraiture Patrizia Zambrano, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale 2. Botticelli's Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli: a technical study Nicola Costaras, Victoria and Albert Museum and Clare Richardson, Courtauld Institute 3. Classicism and invention: Botticelli's mythologies in our time and their time Paul Holberton, independent scholar 4. Jacopo del Sellaio's adaptation of the Primavera Jerzy Miziolek, Museum of the University of Warsaw Part 2: The Botticelli effect Introduction Julius Bryant, Victoria and Albert Museum 5. Whigs and primitives: Dante and Botticelli in England from Jonathan Richardson to John Flaxman Mark Evans, Victoria and Albert Museum 6. Befriending Botticelli: psychology and connoisseurship at the fin de siècle Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex 7. A woman's touch, Michael Field, Botticelli and queer desire Anna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading Part 3: Botticelli between art history and connoisseurship Introduction Caroline Elam, Warburg Institute 8.

Crowe and Cavalcaselle on Botticelli: new results Donata Levi, University of Udine 9. Why Botticelli? Aby Warburg's search for a new approach to Quattrocento Italian art Claudia Wedepohl, Warburg Institute 10. 'A Japanese Critic on Botticelli': fragmentation and universality in Yashiro's 1925 monograph Jonathan K. Nelson, Syracuse University, Florence 11. Jacques Mesnil's Botticelli Michel Hochmann, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (EPHE, PSL) Part 4: Botticelli now Introduction Stefan Weppelmann, Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 12. Ninfa fluida (a post-scriptum) Georges Didi-Huberman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 13. Into the abyss. On Salvador Dalì's Dream of Venus Riccardo Venturi, Académie de France, Villa Medici, Rome 14.

Giving an edge to the beautiful line: Botticelli referenced in the works of contemporary artists to address issues of gender and global politics Gabriel Montua, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin".