Introduction: Observations on the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting
pt. 1. Theory and art in the academy of Francisco Pacheco: A community of scholars
El arte de la Pintura as an academy document
Theory into practice: the arts and the academy
pt. 2. Painters and programs: On the meaning of Las Meninas
Zurbaran's paintings in the sacristy of the Monastery of Guadalupe
Hieroglyphs of death and salvation: the decoration of the Church of the Hermandad de la Caridad, Seville.