Issue contents
Editorial
Dumfries House
Articles
Gustave Moreau's 'Salome': the poetics and politics of history painting
by
PETER COOKE
Notre-Dame de Paris: the apostles on the spire rediscovered
by DEIRDRE WESTGATE and CHARANNE CLARKE
Shorter notices
A missing Van Gogh unveiled
by META CHAVANNES and LOUIS VAN TILBORGH
'When the girls come out to play': Edouard Vuillard and Charles Hodge Mackie, a reattribution
by BELINDA THOMSON
Obituaries
Craig Hugh Smyth (1915-2006)
by HELLMUT WOHL
Oliver Millar (1923-2007)
by MICHAEL LEVEY
Book reviews
Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291, J. Folda
by ROBIN CORMACK
Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a time of Plague 1500-1800, edited by G.A. Bailey, P.M. Jones, F. Mormando and T.W. Worcester
by OPHER MANSOUR
Titian and Tragic Painting. Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist, T. Puttfarken
The Poetics of Titian's Religious Paintings, U. Roman D'Elia
by CHARLES HOPE
Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1690-1734), J. Delaplanche
by GUILLAUME FAROULT
The Nation's Mantelpiece. A History of the National Gallery, J. Conlin
by CELINA FOX
Exhibition reviews
Dalí & Film
by ROGER CARDINAL
Bomberg; Vaughan; Uglow; Greaves
by JAMES BEECHEY
Italian Prints 1875-1975
by GIORGIO MARINI
Peter DeWint
by JESSICA FEATHER
Biedermeier
by REINIER BAARSEN
Georg Petel
by FRITS SCHOLTEN
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
by CHRISTIAN SAEHRENDT
Pietro Tacca
by LUISA VERTOVA
Venice and the Islamic World
by PATRICIA FORTINI BROWN
The 52nd Biennale
by JOHN-PAUL STONARD
Piero della Francesca
by FRANK DABELL
Symbolism
by LINDA GODDARD
Federico da Montefeltro's library
by LILIAN ARMSTRONG
'Poiret: King of Fashion'
by LYNNE COOKE
Richard Serra
by JAMES LAWRENCE
In next month's issue
The September issue is devoted to twentieth-century art, with articles on:
Richard Hamilton's sources for 'Just what is it...'
Theory and practice in Robert Irwin's paitning in the 1960s
Stuart Davis and advertising in 'Little giant still life'
Acquisitions at the Barber Institute, Birmingham