Issue contents
Editorial
Octogenarian salute
Articles
Charles de La Fosse's 'Rinaldo and Armida' and 'Rape of Europa' at Basildon Park
by JO HEDLEY
Diderot, Guiard and Houdon: projects for a funerary monument at Gotha, I
by CHRISTOPH FRANK, ULRIKE D. MATHIES and ANNE L. POULET
Shorter notices
Drawings for an unexecuted monument to Louis XVI
by CHERYL K. SNAY
Two Orientalist water-colours by Delacroix
by LEE JOHNSON
'Frater Michael Angelus in tumultu': the cause of Caravaggio's imprisonment in Malta
by KEITH SCIBERRAS
Letter to the Editor
The dating of the Coccarelli leaves in the British Library
by ROBERT GIBBS
Book reviews
The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures, Elizabeth Angelicoussis
The Parthenon Frieze, Jenifer Neils
The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France, Margaret M. McGowan
Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State, David Rosand
Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilisation of an Italian City-State 1297–1797, ed. John Martin and Dennis Romano
The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors, Eileen Harris
Figured in Marble: The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture, Malcolm Baker
Whistler's Venice, Alastair Grieve
Palaces in the Night. Whistler in Venice, Margaret MacDonald
Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics, 1826–1925, ed. David B. Dearinger
Gauguin. Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'xuvre peint (1873–1888), Daniel Wildenstein with Sylvie Crussard and Martine Heudron
Leonid Pasternak, The Russian Years, 1875–1921, A Critical Study and Catalogue, Rimgaila Salys
Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin, Andrew Wilton
Exhibition reviews
LONDON: Aelbert Cuyp
PARIS: Capital of the Arts; American Sublime; Paul Klee
ROTTERDAM: Unpacking Europe
GRONINGEN: Ilya Repin
NEW YORK, BILBAO and OXFORD: Brazilian baroque
LOS ANGELES: Douglas Gordon