Introduction: painting and music at the crossroads. The middle ages and renaissance ; Newton's opticks ; Harmony for ear and eye ; The crossroads
Popularity, music and the visual arts. An international language ; Musical biography: Carpani exploding the cannon ; Vox populi ; Steps to Parnassus. 'How eye and ear are entranced': Haydn and Esterházy patronage ; Ataria & compagnie: dealers in prints and music ; Haydn and Goya
Talking pictures and moving images: the discourse on the visual arts in eighteenth-century opera. Sacrificing Iphigenia: Algarotti, Tiepolo and Vanloo ; Gluck and the visual arts ; Painting the cannon's roar
Musical icons and the cult of Haydn. A public image ; Updating the image ; The reluctant sitter ; Age and youth ; The cult of Haydn ; Physiognomy, phrenology and Frankenstein ; Hero
Developing tastes: the culture of looking in England in the early 1790s. A visual education: Haydn as collector ; A popular collection ; Looking and listening in London ; 'Picture after picture': The creation and The seasons ; Creating waves ; 'Pictures for the ear' ; Motion and the dynamics of light ; Observing nature ; Moving pictures
'Last judgement'. Evolutionary ends ; Still courting popularity ; Beyond the crossroads - Appendix. Haydn's collection.