The matter of the medium: some tools for an art-theoretical interpretation of materials / Ann-Sophie Lehmann -- The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- On the origins of European painting materials, real and imagined / Anne Dunlop -- Gold coins and gold leaf in early Italian paintings / Irma Passeri -- The 'Genealogy of Jean le Blanc': accounting for the materiality of the medieval Eucharist / Aden Kumler -- Lead white's mysteries / Spike Bucklow -- Material distinctions: plaster, terracotta, and wax in the Renaissance artist's workshop / Eckart Marchand -- Rocks and reverence: Inka and Spanish perceptions of stonework in the early modern Andes / Carolyn Dean -- Precious stones, mineral beings: performative materiality in fifteenth-century northern art / Brigitte Buettner -- Carving life: the meaning of wood in early modern European sculpture / Christina Neilson -- Arti povere, 1300-1650 / Michael Cole -- Polish stone, Venetian glass, and red Hungarian marble: the materials of a Renaissance chapel in Jagiellonian Poland / Katie Jakobiec -- Reveal or conceal: chopines and the display of material wealth in early modern Valencia and Venice / Elizabeth Semmelhack -- Entanglements of body, text, and stone: the crafting and connoisseurship of inkstones in eighteenth-century China / Dorothy Ko.