Amsterdam in the Golden Age: the people and their homes -- Inside the homes of the wealthy: the conditions for viewing paintings -- Portraits: family members, ancestors, and public figures -- Christ, the Virgin Mary, Venus, and other religious and mythological figures -- Elegant men and women, peasants, and prostitutes -- Erotic images in the domestic interior: cultural ideals and social practices -- Confronting seventeenth-century art: then and now -- Appendix: evidence about paintings in seventeenth-century homes: household inventories.