Issue contents
Editorial
The Royal Academy of Arts
Articles
The tablet-woven hangings of Tigre, Ethiopia: from history to
symmetry
by MICHAEL GERVERS
New evidence on 'Triumphs of Petrarch' tapestries in the early sixteenth century. Part II: the English court
by THOMAS P. CAMPBELL
Gustave Moreau's 'Œdipus and the sphinx': archaism, temptation
and the nude at the Salon of 1864
by PETER COOKE
Shorter notices
Tristan Tzara and the plays of the Douanier Rousseau
by NANCY IRESON
Francis Picabia's 'Américaine' from the cover of '391',
July 1917
by MARIEA CAUDILL DENNISON
Book reviews
Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169–1550, C. Hourihane
by PETER KIDSON
Engaging Symbols. Gender, Politics and Public Art in Fifteenth-century
Florence, A.W.B. Randolph
by FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS
Dessins italiens de Venise à Palerme du Musée des
Beaux-Arts d'Orléans XVe–XVIIIe siècle, E.
Pagliano
by DAVID SCRASE
Below Stairs. 400 Years of Servants' Portraits, G. Waterfield
and A. French
by IAIN GORDON BROWN
John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits. Complete Paintings,
Vol. 3, R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray
by MARC SIMPSON
New Zealand Painting: A Concise History, M. Dunn;
New Zealand Sculpture: A History, M. Dunn
by MARK STOCKER
Italia S.p.A. L'assalto al patrimonio culturale, S. Settis
by RANDOLPH STARN
Publications received
Exhibition reviews
Russian landscape
by JONATHAN OSMOND
Edward Hopper
by MERLIN JAMES
Miró
by NICHOLAS WATKINS
Józef Mehoffer
by ELIZABETH CLEGG
Matteo Civitali
by PATRIZIA ZAMBRANO
Mario Minniti
by JOHN GASH
Luis Meléndez
by XAVIER BRAY
Childe Hassam
by NATHAN KERNAN
Seurat and 'La Grande Jatte'
by ELLEN W. LEE
In next month's issue
Art in Italy
An attribution to Mosca Padovano
Not Canaletto but Bellotto
Venetian artists in Dolo
Furnishing the Casino Reale, Carditello
A drawing by the young Correggio