This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

• Part 1
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Seventeenth-Century Spanish Taste, Peter Cherry
  • A Golden Age of Collecting, Marcus B. Burke
  • The Inventory Process
  • List of Collectors (in alphabetical sequence)
  • Inventories (in chronological sequence)
• Part 2
  • Index of Artists
  • Index of Subjects
  • List of Artist Appraisers
  • List of Spanish Inventories available at the Getty Provenance Index
  • Bibliography of Picture Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Madrid
  • Illustrations

Marcus B. Burke is curator of painting and drawing at the Hispanic Society of America.

Peter Cherry is professor and head of the department of the history of art and architecture at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.