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i l l u s t r at i o n s Figure 1 Michael Sittow, Katherine of Aragon, 1505 32 Figure 2 Europe in the Age of Henry V and Henry VI, c. 1430 34 Figure 3 Alejo Fernández, The Virgin of the Navigators, c. 1535 46 Figure 4 The prophet Daniel, c. 1547–48 84 Figure 5 A Fig for the Spaniard 104 Figure 6 Titian, Ranuccio Farnese, c. 1542 129 Figure 7 Alexander Farnese, c. 1590 130 Figure 8 Agostino Carracci, Ritratto di Ranuccio I Farnese 132 Figure 9 Elizabethan gold coinage: Angel and pound 144 Figure 10 The Somerset House Conference, 1604 172 Figure 11 George Gower, Armada Portrait, c. 1589 176 Figure 12 Santiago Matamoros, fifteenth century 202 This page intentionally left blank ...

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