Issue contents
Editorial
The photographic libraries at the Courtauld
Articles
'A great sumptuousness of paintings': frescos and Franciscan poverty at Assisi in 1288 and 1312
by
DONAL COOPERand JANET ROBSON
The patronage and date of the legend of St Francis in the Upper Church of S. Francesco at Assisi
by PAUL BINSKI
'Beautiful in form and execution': the design and construction of Andrea Riccio's Paschal candlestick
by SHELLEY STURMAN, SIMONA CRISTANETTI, DEBRA PINCUS, KAREN SERRES and DYLAN SMITH
Abbé Celotti and the provenance of Antonello da Messina's 'The condottiere' and Antonio de Solario's 'Virgin and Child with St John'
by ANNE-MARIE EZE
A double-portrait attributable to Marietta Tintoretto
by DUNCAN BULL
A Caravaggesque 'Christ' in Scotland
by JOHN GASH
An addition to the provenance of Caravaggio's 'Taking of Christ'
by JAKE WILSON
Art History Reviewed
Bernard Berenson's 'The Drawings of the Florentine Painters Classified, Criticised and Studied as Documents in the History and Appreciation of Tuscan Art, with a Copious Catalogue Raisonné', 1903
by CARMEN BAMBACH
Book reviews
Giotto's O: Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel, A. Ladis
The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua, A. Derbes and M. Sandona
Giotto and the Arena Chapel: Art, Architecture and Experience, L. Jacobus
L'affare migliore di Enrico. Giotto e la cappella Scrovegni, C. Frugoni
by
JOHN OSBORNE
La O di Giotto, S.Romano
by
DONAL COOPER
The Power of Images, the Images of Power: Lucca as an Imperial City; Political Iconography, M. Seidel and R. Silva
by FLAVIO BOGGI
Rinascimento Ritrovato: Nell'età di Bramante e Leonardo tra i Navigli e il Ticino, P. De Vecchio and G. Bora, eds.
by
CHARLES ROBERTSON
Pintoricchio, V. Garibaldi and F.F. Mancini, eds.
by CAROL PLAZZOTTA
Michelangelo, Zeichnungen und Zuschreibungen/Drawings and Attributions, M. Sonnabend
by
CHARLES DAVIS
La Galleria Farnese. Gli affreschi dei Carracci, S.Ginzburg
by XAVIER F. SALOMON
Andrea Lanzani 1641–1712. Protagonista del Barocchetto Lombardo , S. Colombo and M. Dell'Omo
by
MARCO RICCOMINI
Exhibition reviews
Pieter de Witte - Pietro Candido
by ERIKA LANGMUIR
Cardinal Pallotta's collection
by XAVIER F. SALOMON
Eighteenth-century Florence
by PAOLO COEN
Charles IV of Spain and the decorative arts
by ALVAR GONZALEZ-PALACIOS
The conversation piece
by KATE RETFORD
Charles Darwin and the visual arts
by LAURENCE SHAFE
J.W. Waterhouse
by JULIAN TREUHERZ
Musée Magritte Museum
by JORG ZUTTER
Barry Flanagan
by FRANCES SPALDING
Isabel Toledo
by LYNNE COOKE
Calendar
Supplement
In next month's issue
The November issue is devoted to sculpture and marks the new Medieval and Renaissance rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with articles on the Museum’s Romanesque window from Trie-Château and on its Venetian tympanum by Bartolomeo Bon. Also in the issue are the Curzon Memorial at Kedleston and the commission for the Edith Cavell Memorial in London.