Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of lllustrations -- Introduction: The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts -- I. Intersections -- Petrarch's Italy, Sovereign Poetry and the Hand of Simone Martini -- 'Salve Maria Gods Moeder Ghepresen.' The Salve Regina and the Vernacular in the Art of Hans Memling, Anthonis de Roovere, and Jacob Obrecht -- Going Local: Three Sixteenth-Century Florentine Views on Donatello's St. George -- As Many Lands, As Many Customs. Vernacular Self-Awareness Among the Netherlandish Rhetoricians -- Frans Hals and the Vernacular -- II. Method -- The Hybrid Text: Transformation of the Vernacular in Beware the Cat -- Local Terrains: Imaging the Vernacular Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- III. Identities -- Als ich can: How Jan van Eyck Extended the Vernacular from Dutch Poetry to Oil Painting -- Pictorial Babel: Inventing the Flemish Visual Vernacular -- Visualizing Vitruvius: Stylistic Pluralism in Serlio's Sixth Book on Architecture? -- Exotic Imitation and Local Cultivation: A Study on the Art Form of Dutch Delftware Between 1640 and 1720 -- Index Nominum.