Issue contents
Editorial
‘I collect, therefore I am’
Articles
The inventory of Pietro Mellini’s collection at the Palazzo del Rosario in 1680
by JORGE FERNDEZ-SANTOS ORTIZ-IRIBAS
Appendix
The banker Charles Godefroy and his dealings in paintings, or the secrets of an account book revealed (1738–48)
by FRANÇOIS MARANDET
Two works by Chardin in the collection of Count Heinrich von Brühl
by TOBIAS BURG
The origins of the Barnes Collection, 1912–15
by COLIN C. BAILEY
The 4th Marquess of Hertford’s early years as a collector
by JEREMY WARREN
Piranesi and Sir Roger Newdigate: a footnote
by FRANCIS RUSSELL
Book reviews
Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century,
A. MacGregor
by CELINA FOX
Lorenzo de’ Medici: Collector and Antiquarian,
L. Fusco and G. Corti
by ALISON WRIGHT
Ferrante Gonzaga. Un principe del Rinascimento,
G. Barbieri and L. Olivato, eds.
by D.S. CHAMBERS
The Arts of Spain, Iberia and Latin?America 1450–1700,
M. Trusted
by ROSEMARIE MULCAHY
Cosimo I de’ Medici and his Self-representation in Florentine Art and Culture,
H.T. van Veen
by ANDREA M. GÁLDY
Ottavio Costa (1554–1639), le sue case e i suoi quadri. Ricerche d’archivio,
J. Costa Restagno
Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni tra le ricevute del banco Herrera & Costa,
M.C. Terzaghi
by XAVIER F. SALOMON
Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Seicento,
L. Borean and S. Mason, eds.
by MICHAEL LEVEY
I disegni del Codice Resta di Palermo,
S.P.V. Rodinò
by GENEVIEVE WARWICK
Catalogue des peintures italiennes du Musée du Louvre,
E. Foucart-Walter, ed.
by WILLIAM MOSTYN-OWEN
Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Statens Museum for Kunst: Neapolitan Drawings,
C. Fischer and J. Meyer
by DAVID SCRASE
Exhibition reviews
The Lure of the East
by MELANIE VANDENBROUCK-PRZYBYLSKI
Eighteenth-century bluestockings
by SUSAN JENKINS
Klimt
by LESLIE TOPP
Impressionist interiors
by PAULA MURPHY
Figuration Narrative
by SARAH WILSON
Dutch primitives
by STEPHAN KEMPERDICK
Garofalo
by ARVI WATTEL
Impressionists and their technique
by LOUIS VAN TILBORGH
Fontainebleau
by JOHN HOUSE
Merian
by ELIZABETH ALICE HONIG
Calendar
In next month's issue
Portraits by Cuyp and by Liotard
More light on Degas’s frame designs
Pieter de Hooch, father and son
Reviews include The Renaissance Portrait at the Prado
Florence and the Netherlands
Hammershøi and Wyndham Lewis
Bridget Riley in Paris