Handsomely designed and produced, this stunning book highlights sensual paintings from the Spanish royal collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. This superb selection of twenty-eight paintings includes works by Jan Breughel, Guercino, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez. Included is Titian’s Reclining Venus with Cupid and a Musician, and several works by Rubens. Contains very good commentary essays including a contemporary response to understanding the nude in Renaissance and Baroque painting by Jill Burke. Published by Yale University Press.