Focusing on the outstanding 16th-century European paintings in the National Gallery, London, this catalog examines the finest works of such artists as Dürer, Holbein, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Gossaert, Veronese, and Bronzino, illustrated in 385 plates (both detail views and full reproductions, nearly all in color). The authors look at large altarpieces, small domestic devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture decorations, and portraits, as well as frescoes, drawings, and prints, and provide insight into the meanings of individual pieces and the purposes they were intended to serve