In our December 2015 issue, published on 1st December 2015

EDITORIAL
Neil MacGregor and the British Museum

ARTICLES
A possible French source for the left wing of the Wilton Diptych
by DILLIAN GORDON

The crystal sceptre of the City of London
by MICHAEL HALL

Federico Zuccari and the chapel of the Dukes of Urbino at Loreto: the design for the altar of the Annunciation
by ANTONIO RUSSO

‘A Child of Strawberry’: Thomas Barrett and Lee Priory, Kent
by MATTHEW M. REEVE and PETER N. LINDFIELD

Matisse and the khayamiya: an Egyptian curtain unveiled
by SAM BOWKER

THE ART OF CONSERVATION II
Sir Charles Eastlake and conservation at the National Gallery, London
by SUSANNA AVERY-QUASH

BOOKS
Le Maroc médiéval: Un empire de l’Afrique à l’Espagne, Y. Lintz, C. Déléry and B.T.Leonetti, eds.
by MARIAM ROSSER-OWEN

Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence, L.E. Alcalá and J. Brown, eds.
by CRISTINA CRUZ GONZÁLEZ

American Painters on Technique. Volume I: The Colonial Period to 1860; Volume II: 1860–1945, L. Mayer and G. Myers
by ZAHIRA VÉLIZ BOMFORD

Le relief au croisement des arts du XIXe siècle, C. Barbillon
by PHILIP WARD-JACKSON

Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism, N. Bondil, ed.
by PETER COOKE

The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, S. Bradley and N. Pevsner
by MICHAEL HALL

Matisse’s Sculpture. The Pinup and the Primitive, E. McBreen
by NICHOLAS WATKINS

TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, M. Hentea
by ROBERT RADFORD

Grown But Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology, E. Juler
by ALICE CORREIA

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

EXHIBITIONS
Goya portraits
by XAVIER F. SALOMON

Palladian design
by OWEN HOPKINS

Contemporary round up
by JAMES CAHILL

The Fallen Woman
by OLIVIA PARKER

Sickert in Dieppe
by RICHARD SHONE

Fragonard
by DAVID PULLINS

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
by GERRIT WALCZAK

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours in Geneva
by MARCEL ROETHLISBERGER

Munch : Van Gogh
by ALEXANDER ADAMS

Divine Beauty
by FRANCES SPALDING

Picasso sculpture
by ROSALIND MCKEVER

Soviet film and photography
by ANNE BLOOD

Rembrandt etchings
by AMY GOLAHNY

Made in the Americas
by ERIC M. ZAFRAN

CALENDAR

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