Frontispiece: HANS BOL Flemish, 1534­1593 Landscape with the Story of Venus and Adonis [detail] Bodycolor heightened with gold on vellum 92.GG.28 (See no. 56) At the J. Paul Getty Museum: Christopher Hudson, Publisher Mark Greenberg, Managing Editor Benedicte Gilman, Editor Suzanne Watson Petralli, Production Coordinator Charles Passela, Photographer Text for the Italian, French, Spanish, and British schools prepared by Nicholas Turner; text for the German and Swiss and for the Dutch and Flemish schools prepared by Lee Hendrix Designed and produced by Thames and Hudson and copublished with the J. Paul Getty Museum © 1997 The J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive Suite 1000 Los Angeles, California 90049­1687 Library of Congress Card Number 96­23151 ISBN 0­89236­438­6 Color reproductions by CLG Fotolito, Verona, Italy Printed and bound in Singapore by C.S. Graphics