Divided into five themes: Classical Myth and Legend, The Bible and the Life of Christ, Saints and their Miracles, History, Literature and the Arts, Symbols and Allegories, The Secret Language of Art provides detailed commentaries on 75 key paintings as well as illuminating analyses of over 500 individual figures, symbols and allegories. It concludes with an index of artists and a reference list of specific paintings mentioned or illustrated in the book, with a note on the museum or gallery in which they may be seen.