Issue contents
Editorial
The V. & A.: where are we?
Articles
When Serpotta is not Serpotta: the stuccos in the church of S. Spirito in Agrigento
by DONALD GARSTANG
Splendentia recognita: furniture by Martin Foxhall for Fonthill
by SIMON SWYNFEN JERVIS
Symbolism and politics in Morris & Co. tapestries from Melsetter House, Orkney
by ANNETTE CARRUTHERS
Louis Comfort Tiffany and Romano-Byzantine design
by J.B. BULLEN
Shorter notices
A late Medieval English design for an altarpiece
by JULIAN LUXFORD
The ‘Story of Psyche’ in Brussels tapestry c.1700:
new information on Jan van Orley, Jan-Baptiste Vermillion and Victor Janssens
by KOENRAAD BROSENS
Samuel Scott’s Sèvres vases at the Bowes Museum
by HOWARD COUTTS
Book reviews
The Stones of Naples. Church Building in Angevin Italy 1266–1343, C. Bruzelius
by CORDELIA WARR
European Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum. Catalogues of the Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, volume 5,
E. Hartkamp-Jonxis and H. Smit
by CHARISSA BREMER-DAVID
Rubens and England, F. Donovan
by JEREMY WOOD
Silver in England: the Parker and Wakelin Partnership
c.1760–1776, H. Clifford
by ANN EATWELL
Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry
ed. S. Weber Soros and S. Walker
by CHARLOTTE GERE
Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts & Crafts Architecture, S. Kirk
by TIMOTHY BRITTAIN-CATLIN
Publications received
Exhibition reviews
Arts and Crafts
by TANYA HARROD
Circling the Square
by CHRISTINA LODDER
British watercolours
by RICHARD GREEN
Africa Remix
by MORGAN FALCONER
Salvator Rosa landscapes
by RODNEY PALMER
Romanesque France
by NEIL STRATFORD
Il Cerano
by ERIKA LANGMUIR
Reynolds’s portraits
by DAVID MANNINGS
Views of Rome
by JÖRG GARMS
Daniel Buren
by LYNNE COOKE
In next month's issue
The underdrawings revealed in Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’
Henri-Pierre Danloux and ‘The Skating Minister’
Charles of Lorraine’s Audience Chamber and the ‘Abercorn desk’
in the Wallace Collection