Book excerpt: Table of Contents: Preface. Diane Wolfthal, 'Florentine Bankers, Flemish Friars, and the Patronage of the Portinari Altarpiece'; Michael Rohlmann, 'The Annunciation by Joos Ammann in Genoa: Context, Function and Metapictorial Quality'; Creighton Gilbert, 'Piero and Bouts'; Francis Ames-Lewis, 'Sources and Documents for the Use of the Oil Medium in Fifteenth-Century Italian Painting'; Maria Clelia Galassi, 'Aspects of Antonello da Messina's Technique and Working Method in the 1470s: Between Italian and Flemish Tradition'; Colin Eisler, 'Flying Pictorial Carpets - Tapestries' Transalpine Agendas'; Ingrid D. Rowland, 'Agostino Chigi's Flemish Connection'; Elizabeth Ross, 'Mainz at the Crossroads of Utrecht and Venice: Erhard Reuwich and the Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486)'; Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, 'Northern Realism and Carthusian Devotion: Bergognone's Christ Carrying the Cross for the Certosa of Pavia'; Marina Belozerskaya, 'Critical Mass: Importing Luxury Industries Across the Alps'; Barbara G. Lane, 'Memling's Impact on the Early Raphael'; Laura D. Gelfand, 'Regional Styles and Political Ambitions: Margaret of Austria's Monastic Foundation at Brou'; Yona Pinson, 'Moralized Triumphal Chariots - Metamorphosis of Petrarch's Trionfi in Northern Art (c. 1530- c. 1560)'; Frits Scholten, 'Spiriti veramente divini: Sculptors from the Low Countries in Italy, 1500-1600'; Nello Forti Grazzini, 'Brussels Tapestries for Italian Customers: Cardinal Montalto's Landscape with Animals Made by Jan II Raes and Catherine van den Eynde'. Bibliography. Colour Plates.