Issue contents
Editorial
Dublin museums: a question of balance
Articles
John Piper and Coventry, in war and peace
by FRANCES SPALDING
Shorter notices
A rediscovered portrait of Queen Anne, when a child, by Sir Peter Lely
by DAVID A.H.B. TAYLOR
Marcellus Laroon, John Baptist Gaspars and the portraits of Charles II for Christ's Hospital
by CAROL GIBSON-WOOD
Sado-masochism and synaesthesia: Aubrey Beardsley's 'Frontispiece to Chopin's Third Ballade'
by ROBERT UPSTONE
The many faces of Dora Sly
by WENDY BARON
A portrait by Derain after Julia Margaret Cameron
by JAMES BEECHEY
Letter to the Editor
Mme de Pompadour
by HUMPHREY WINE
Book reviews
Women, art and patronage from Henry VIII to Edward III, 1216–1377, L.L. Gee
by NICOLA COLDSTREAM
Henry VIII Revealed: Holbein's Portrait and its Legacy, X. Brooke and D.Crombie
by SUSAN FOISTER
The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The formative years, 1835–1862, ed. W.E. Fredeman
by JULIAN TREUHERZ
Art and its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes, R. Read
by DAVID CARRIER
Exhibition reviews
Blinky Palermo
by LYNNE COOKE
Raymond Mason
by RICHARD MORPHET
Shakespeare in art
by LEONÉE ORMOND
Nicolas de Staël
by MERLIN JAMES
Carolus-Duran
by JOHN HOUSE
Roberto Longhi and modern art
by MARIA GRAZIA MESSINA
Pedro Berruguete
by CARL BRANDON STREHLKE
Kazimir Malevich
by CHRISTINA LODDER