The first volume includes a biography; listings and discussions of paintings, frescoes, and drawings from Swanevelt's years in Rome and Paris; sources of Swanevelt's style; and his influence on his peers. The Appendix includes primary sources on the artist, including a list of Swanevelt's pictures in the inventories of Cardinal Barberini in the Pamphili in Rome from 1644 and the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid from 1701.