Contents: 1. Prelude - Inspiration - External circumstances - Training and work processes. 2. The birth of the idea in theory and practice - The theories - Coordination of thought and hand, Beccafumi and Piola - Light as a unifying element, Stanzione - Storms of mental images and hidden pentimenti, Rosa and Rembrandt - One motif gives birth to another, Veronese and Rembrandt - The quest for harmony, Thorvaldsen. 3. Determing the composition - An idea for a composition turns into two, Casolani - Striving towards spirituality, Barocci - From panorama to close-up, Diziani and Pellegrini - From scenography to drama, Huber and Tocque - Individual figure-studies decide the composition - Guercino and Preti. 4. Detail-studie - Studies of children - Female models - Studies of drapery - Faces, hands and other details - Animal studies - Landscapes. 5. The fully-developed composition, drawing, the cartoon - Pricked holes and pounced drawings - Sinopie - The cartoon as artwork or tool - The cartoon as an advertisement - Niels Larsen Stevns' use of cartoons. 6. Education - Apprenticeship - The private academies in Italy - The academy as a state institution - The Academy in Copenhagen - The collapse of the Academy's teaching. 7. Settling the contract - Presentation-drawings, Carpaccio and his workshop - Drawings with associated contracts, Aliense and Campagnola - Presentation drawings in two versions, Vanni - Drawings send for approval, Gherardini. 8. Tradition and renewal - The artist as maintainer of tradition, Vanni - Models transformed, Rembrandt - Tradition as guidance and misdirection, El Greco - The artist as collector, Abildgaard - Masses of inspiration, Abildgaard in Rome. 9. Cooperation, copies, repetitions and picture-archives - Informal cooperation, Juel and Clemens - Master and apprentice, Verrocchio and Leonardo - Two masters, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Bartolomeo di Giovanni - Rubens' cantoor - Ricordi, The Tiepolo family's workshop - Copoies in the artist's own hand, for the free market, Greuze - Counter-proofs, J.P. Lund. 10. Four Creations - Abildgaard's Terence paintings - Christen Kobke's Morning view of Osterbro - P.S. Kroyer's portrait of Sophus Schandorph (by Jesper Svenningsen) - Edward Weie's Faun and nymph.

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