Not full-scale monographs with catalogues raisonnés can be expected in this series. Books in ars picturae will offer brief but scholarly surveys of an artist's life and work, discussions of the most salient iconographic issues, and when appropriate, comments on patronage, social context, and the painter's reputation in his own and later times. A generous number of reproductions, having been selected with a critical eye, should make each of these volumes a valuable reference work, even for readers who, like the authors, have pored over photographs in the archives at The Hague, London, Antwerp and New York. ars picturae books are printed in a limited edition of 600 copies.