Appreciating the traces of an artist's hand
Preface -- Albrecht Dürer's The desperate man: fleeting images and the creating hand / Kayo Hirakawa -- Rubens and the history of the oil sketch / Toshiharu Nakamura -- The hands of Rubens: on copies and their reception / Nils Büttner -- Connection between rough brushstrokes and vulgar subjects in seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings / Michiko Fukaya -- Rembrandt in Kassel: the relativity of eighteenth-century connoisseurship / Gregor J.M. Weber -- Genius, inspiration, and hands: pre-Romantic image of artists and fantasy figures by Fragonard / Tomoko Yoshida -- Originality spontaneity, and sincerity: the rise of the sketch in France at the turn of the nineteenth century / Nicole R. Myers -- "Full of vigour, & nature, fresh, original, warm from observation of nature, hasty, unpolished, untouched": the oil sketches of John Constable / Mark Evans -- How Paul Cézanne rejected the fini concept / Takanori Nagaï.