1. Préface

   • Jochen Becker
   • Àron Kibédi Varga

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. Helping hands: Some basic remarks on argumentation in the visual arts

   • Annemiek Ouwerkerk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 11

3. Speaking in stone — On the meaning of architecture in the Middle Ages

   • Lex Bosman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 28

4. Velázquez's fable of arachne (Las Hilanderas): A continuing story

   • Jan Baptist Bedaux

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 43

5. “Out of disegno invention is born” — Drawing a convincing figure in Renaissance Italian Art

   • Paul van den Akker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 66

6. Beholding the beholder: The reception of “Dutch” painting

   • Jochen Becker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 87

7. Diderot, Jacques, le Maître, le spectateur et l'amateur — Raconter le tableau, argumenter le goût

   • Bernard Vouilloux

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 101

8. Hobby horses in Lascaux — On pictures and semiosis

   • Jeroen Stumpel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 117

9. Table ronde avec la participation de Michael Cahn, Francis Edeline, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, Aron Kibédi Varga et Olivier Reboul

   Rhétorique et Image Pages: 119 - 131