Issue contents
Editorial
Museums in Britain: bouquets and brickbats
Articles
Works by Alessandro Turchi for Spain and an unexpected Velázquez connection
by
GABRIELE FINALDI
Caravaggio, the Confraternita della Misericordia and the original context of the Oratory of the Decollato in Valletta
by KEITH SCIBERRAS
Shorter Notices
Notes on a drawing by Pesellino
by JEAN K. CADOGAN
A new drawing by the young Raphael and its source in Donatello
by CARMEN C. BAMBACH
A newly discovered print by Giulio Bonasone
by MARK P. McDONALD
The early provenance of Ribera's 'Drunken Silenus'
by AIDAN WESTON-LEWIS
French sources for Pompeo Batoni's 'Sacred Heart of Jesus' in the Jesuit Church in Rome
by MARTHA MEL EDMUNDS
Obituary
Donald Garstang (1946-2007)
by FRANCIS RUSSELL
Book reviews
Philip II of Spain. Patron of the Arts, R. Mulcahy
by SALVADOR SALORT
Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, R. Ward Bissell, A. Derstine and D. Miller
by BEVERLY LOUISE BROWN
Bernini pittore. Dal disegno al 'maraviglioso composto', F. Petrucci
by ARNAULD BREJON DE LAVERGNÉE
Goya y el Palacio de Sobradiel, S. Alcoleo Blanch et al
Las pinturas de San Antonio de la Florida de Goya, G.M. Borrás Gualís
La duquesa de Alba, 'musa' de Goya. El mito y la historia, M.B. Mena Marqués and G. Mühle-Maurer
by NIGEL GLENDINNING
The public art museum in nineteenth century Britain: The development of the National Gallery, C. Whitehead
by RICHARD GREEN
Exhibition reviews
Italian art in the Royal Collection
by NICHOLAS PENNY
Annette Messager
by AURÉLIE VERDIER
Louis La Caze
by FRANCES SUZMAN JOWELL
Balthus
by MERLIN JAMES
Richard Estes
by DAVID ANFAM
Surrealism
by ROMY GOLAN
The Geometry of Hope
by DAVID CARRIER
Latin America 1492-1820
by XAVIER BRAY
Calendar
Next month's issue is devoted to sculpture with articles on:
A possible portrait relief of Cellini
Two marble statuettes by Cristoforo Solari
A monument to Sir John Finch in Padua
Harry Bates's 'Mors Janua Vitae' (1899)
Eric Gill's 'Mankind'
Reviews of Ghiberti, Patinir, Medardo Rosso, Baselitz and recent exhibitions of painting