Approaching the Italian Renaissance interior / Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Flora Dennis and Ann Matchette -- 'Contrary to the truth and also to the semblance of reality'? Entering a Venetian 'lying-in' chamber (1605) / Patricia Allerston -- Sacred to secular, east to west: the Renaissance study and strategies of display / Maria Ruvoldt -- Domestic sacral space in the Florentine Renaissance palace / Philip Mattox -- Bathing 'all'antica': bathrooms in Genoese villas and palaces in the sixteenth century / Stephanie Hanke -- To have and have not: the disposal of household furnishings in Florence / Ann Matchette -- Creating sacred space: the religious visual culture of the Renaissance Venetian 'casa' / Margaret A. Morse.