Issue contents
Editorial
The Warburg under threat
Articles
Claus Sluter’s ‘Well of Moses’ for the Chartreuse de Champmol reconsidered: part III
by SUSIE NASH
Jacob Epstein – the Indian connection
by RUPERT RICHARD ARROWSMITH
A technical study of Picasso’s construction ‘Still life’ (1914)
by JACKIE HEUMAN
The mysteries of Desiderio’s ‘St Jerome’ revealed by Clarence Kennedy
by MELISSA BECK LEMKE
Andrea Sansovino and the design for a funerary monument for Leo X
by ALESSANDRA BIGI IOTTI
John Bushnell in Chichester: the monument to Bishop Carleton
by SIMON WATNEY
Mike Nelson’s ‘The coral reef’ (2000)
by NICHOLAS CULLINAN
Monument to an aniconic city:
Chris Burden’s ‘Urban light’ (2008)
by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD
Letters to the Editor
A portrait by Champaigne; a landscape by Poussin
from PIERRE ROSENBERG
The Académie royale
from ALASTAIR LAING
Book reviews
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over our Ancient Heritage, J. Cuno.
by COLIN RENFREW
Pompeii Awakened, J. Harris.
Antiquity Recovered. The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum,
V.C. Gardner Coates and J.L. Seydl, eds.
The Herculaneum Women: History, Context, Identities,
J. Daehner, ed.
by I.J. SCOTT
Benedetto da Maiano: ein Florentiner Bildhauer an der Schwelle zur Hochrenaissance,
D. Carl .
by JOHANNES RÖLL
Velázquez Esculturas para el Alcázar, J.M. Luzón Nogué, ed.
by KELLEY HELMSTUTLER DI DIO
Roldana, A. Torrejón Díaz and J.L. Romero Torres, eds.
by MARJORIE TRUSTED
Ephemeral bodies: wax sculpture and the human figure,
R. Panzanelli, ed.
by FRANÇOIS QUIVIGER
Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe,
N. Penny and E.D. Schmidt, eds.
by JAMES DAVID DRAPER
Ori e Argenti. Capolavori del ’700 da Arrighi a Valadier,
G. Barucca and J. Montagu
by ALVAR GONZÁLEZ-PALACIOS and ROBERTO VALERIANI
Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660–1760, C. Haynes
by SIMON WATNEY
The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770, M. Craske
by PHILIP WARD-JACKSON
Display and Displacement. Sculpture and the Pedestal from Renaissance to Post-Modern, A. Gerstein, ed.
by PENELOPE CURTIS
Public Sculpture of the City of London, P. Ward-Jackson
by MALCOLM BAKER
Picasso and Apollinaire: the persistence of memory, P. Read
by CAROLINE LEVITT
Exhibition reviews
Hadrian: Empire and Conflict
by CAROLINE VOUT
Ford Madox Brown drawings
by JULIAN TREUHERZ
Tracey Emin
by JOHN-PAUL STONARD
Hans Rottenhammer
by LUUK PIJL
Antico; Riccio
by JEREMY WARREN
Calendar
Supplement
Recent acquisitions (1999–2008) of medieval art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, New York.
In next month's issue
The Capilla Mayor, Chinchón
John Brett’s ‘Christmas morning, 1866’
Some early Picasso discoveries
This issue on sculpture has been generously supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.