Titian, Philip II, and pagan iconography / Anne J. Cruz -- Visual eroticism, poetic voyeurism : Ekphrasis and the complexities of patronage in Góngora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea / Lucia Binotti -- Hercules and the statue garden : Sansón Carrasco's Ekphrastic and imperial contests in Don Quijote II.14 / Frederick A. de Armas -- The legend of Marus Curtius Romanus as a sign of Auctoritas in early modern Spain / Ignacio López Alemany -- Coins, value and trust : the problematic of vellón in seventeenth-century Spanish culture / Elvira Vilches -- Tampering with signs of power : Juan de Palafox, historiography, and the limits of heraldry / John Slater -- Antonio Pérez and the power of treason / Ana María G. Laguna -- Iusgentiumand just war : the problem of representation in Inca Garcilaso's Royal commentaries / José A. Cárdenas Bunsen -- The politics of salvation in El Greco's Escorial paintings and Cervantes's La numancia / E.C. Graf -- Spain succored by religion : Titian and Lope de Vega's La dragontea / Jason McCloskey.