Introduction: a brief history of the literature on Velázquez / Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Becoming an artist in seventeenth-century Spain / Zahira Véliz
Velázquez and Italy / Jonathan Brown
Velázquez and the North / Alexander Vergara
"Sacred and terrifying gazes": languages and images of power in early modern Spain / Antonio Feros
Court women in the Spain of Velázquez / Magdalena S. Sánchez
Spanish religious life in the age of Velázquez / Sara T. Nalle
Velázquez and two poets of the Baroque: Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo / Lía Schwartz
Calderón de la Barca: playwright at court / Margaret R. Greer
Three paintings, a double lyre, opera, and Eliche's Venus: Velázquez and music in the Royal Court in Madrid / Louise K. Stein.