Introduction / Emma Barker -- 1. City and country 1660-1760 -- Bernini and Baroque Rome / Carol M. Richardson -- Meaning and interpretation: Dutch painting of the golden age / Jason Gaiger -- The metropolitan urban renaissance: London 1660-1760 / Elizabeth McKellar -- The English landscape garden 1680-1760 / Susie West -- 2. New worlds of art 1760-1850 -- Painting for the public / Emma Barker -- Canova, Neo-classicism and the sculpted body / Linda Walsh -- The other side of the world / Paul Wood -- Inventing the Romantic artist / Emma Barker.