Table of Contents:
  • The nature of hid decision
  • Preparations for Italy
  • The high Renaissance: Florence, Rome, Milan, Parma
  • The sixteenth-century Venetian tradition
  • The predecessors at Mantua
  • Mannerisms and modernity in Rome and Florence
  • His undertakings 1600-1603
  • The mission to Spain and the return to Mantua
  • The business of a Flemish painter
  • Studying the antique
  • Working for the Oratorians 1606-1608
  • Italy and Rubens in the seventeenth century