Introduction and Acknowledgements
Part I: The Collector and the Artistic Genre
1. Karol Lanckoroñski and his Art Collection
2. Renaissance Weddings and the Visual Arts
Part II: The Power of Narrative. Paintings from Domestic Settings and their Meaning
3. Narcissus, Pyramus and Thisbe, and a Court of Love
4. The Awakening of Paris and Helen of Troy
5. Ulysses, Penelope and the Charm of the Sirens' Song
6. Psyche, Cupid and Botticelli's "Primavera
7. Orpheus and Eurydice, or, the Power of Music and Everlasting Love
8. Battles and Triumphs: the Romans and the Gauls, Scipio Africanus and the Invincible Perseus
9. Shooting at Father's Corpse and other exempla iustitiae
10. Sages Crowned...and Derided, or, the Stories of Aristotle and Virgil
11. A Rape with a Happy Ending: Magnaminity and Nuptials
Conclusions
Ewa Wilkoj, Cassoni Panel Paintings - Conservation Notes
Appendix
Bibliography