Eros visible: art, sexuality and antiquity in Renaissance Italy

Introduction: Profane love

Foundations and preconditions : 'Poets and sculptors ancient and modern write and sculpt lascivious things to amuse the mind'

Mars and Venus in the net of art : from classical models to the Villa Farnesina

Venus, Mars and Vulcan in the high Renaissance

The mirror of Venus : Titan and Tintoretto

The stain in the marble, or faliing in love with the Cnidian Venus

'Double art' and multiple sexualities : La delicatezza del tondo

'Difficult mixtures' : virtuosity and erotic figuration in Marcantonio and Michelangelo.