Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction xi
5. 1. Words That Prevent Perception 1
6. 2. Mantegna: Did He Paint by the Book? 34
7. 3. “How Shall This Be?” Reflections on Filippo Lippi’s Annunciation in London 70
8. 4. Mantegna’s Dead Christ: Passion and Pattern 87
9. 5. Pontormo’s Capponi Chapel 97
10. 6. Pontormo’s Alessandro de’ Medici; or, I Only Have Eyes for You 114
11. 7. Salviati’s Beheading of St. John the Baptist 122
12. 8. An El Greco Entombment Eyed Awry 125
13. 9. Observations in the Cerasi Chapel 130
14. 10. Guercino’s Saint Petronilla 144
15. 11. Steen’s Female Gaze and Other Ironies 162
16. 12. Deciphering Velázquez’s Old Woman Cooking Eggs 180
17. 13. The Water Carrier of Velázquez 186
18. 14. Velázquez’s Pablo de Valladolid 189
19. 15. Velázquez’s Las Meninas 195
20. 16. The Glorious Company 209
21. Notes 237
22. Leo Steinberg: Chronology 281
23. Leo Steinberg: Publications (1947–2010) 285
24. Photography Credits 291
25. Index 293