The Man of Sorrows in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe: a reconsideration of Dürer's gold-ground painting / Kayo Hirakawa -- Where has Paris gone? Sebald Beham's Fountain of Youth reconsidered / Ayumi Yasui -- Winners and losers: the impact of the Reformation on the art market -- Andreas Tacke -- Frans Hals's painterly style and his Tronie-like genre paintings: an examinatin of the influence of Flemish head studies / Toshiharu Nakamura -- An attempt of interpreting some Dutch genre paintings as a variation of De Hollandse Tuin and De Hollandse Maagd / Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato -- Dutch painters in Roman churches in the early Seventeenth Century: the Entombment of Christ by Dirck van Baburen in the context of patronage / Michiko Fukaya -- Sacred art in an age of mechanical reproduction: the Salus Populi Romani Madonna in the world / Mia M. Mochizuki -- The Authors.