Rendez-Vous With Art (Hardcover)

Preface ? Introduction: Yellow Jasper Lips at the Met ? 1. Afternoon in Florence ? 2. A Flood and a Chimera ? 3. Immersed in the Bargello ? 4. A Sense of Place ? 5. The Case of the Duccio Madonna ? 6. In the Met Cafe: A Biographical Interlude ? 7. Princely Collections ? 8. An Artistic Education Sentimentale ? 9. Lost in the Louvre ? 10. Crowds and the Power of Art: A Transatlantic Conversation ? 11. In the Prado ? 12. Hieronymus Bosch and the Hell of Looking at Art with Other People ? 13. Titian and Velazquez ? 14. Las Meninas ? 15. Goya: An Excursion ? 16. Rubens, Tiepolo, Goya Again ? 17. Rotterdam: Museums and their Discontents ? 18. Star-Spotting at the Mauritshuis ? 19. Where Do You Put It? ? 20. Exploring the Jungles of Paris ? 21. Hunting Lions at the British Museum ? 22. Lunch in the Great Court ? 23. Fragments