1. Introducing Venus / Caroline Arscott and Katie Scott
2. seductions of antiquity / Patricia Rubin
3. Wtewael's Perseus and Andromeda: looking for love in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / Joanna Woodall
4. Under the sign of Venus: the making and meaning of Bouchardon's L'Amour in the age of the French rococo / Katie Scott
5. figure of Venus: rhetoric of the ideal and the Salon of 1863 / Jennifer Shaw
6. Venus as dominatrix: nineteenth-century artists and their creations Caroline Arscott
7. Veiling Venus: gender and painterly abstraction in early German modernism / Shulamith Behr
8. Deco Venus / Tag Gronberg
9. Monsieur Venus: Michel Journiac and love / Sarah Wilson.