Bronze : an introduction / David Ekserdjian -- Bronze casting : the art of translation / Francesca G. Bewer -- The ancient near East and Egypt / Timothy Potts -- Chinese bronzes / Jessica Rawson -- Greece, Etruria and Rome / Carol C. Mattusch -- Sacred metals in South and Southeast Asia / John Guy -- West Africa : the lower Niger region / John Picton -- The bronze object in the middle ages / Ittai Weinryb -- The Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe / David Ekserdjian -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Eike D. Schmidt -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Patrick Elliott.