EDITORIAL
Funding the arts in the United States

ARTICLES
The reverse of Giuliano Bugardini’s ‘Portrait of a lady’ in Paris
by MATTEO GIANESELLI

More rediscovered works by Donato Creti
by MARCO RICCòMINI

Duveen’s Italian framemaker, Ferruccio Vannoni
by KAREN SERRES

The 'Führerprojekt' goes to Washington
by MOLLIE KUENSTNER and THOMAS O'CALLAGHAN

The photographic source and artistic affinities of David Hockney’s ‘A bigger splash’
by MARTIN HAMMER

OBITUARIES
John Bury (1917–2017)
by CAROLINE ELAM

Benedict Read (1945–2016)
by MICHAEL PARASKOS

BOOKS
Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs, C. Fluck, G. Helmecke and E.R. O'Connell
by NIAMH BHALLA

Preaching, Building and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City, C. Bruzelius
by CLAUDIA BOLGIA

Tra Napoli e Milano: Viaggi di artisti nell’Italia del Seicento, I: Da Tanzio da Varallo a Massimo Stanzione and II: Salvator Rosa, F. Conte
by FRANCESCA CAPPELLETTI

Jan Lievens: Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, B. Schnackenburg
by CHRISTOPHER BROWN

Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland, P. McCarthy
by ROBERT O'BYRNE

Consumption and the Country House, J. Stobart and M. Rothery
by ROBERT O'BYRNE

British Travellers in Spain 1766–1849, H. Brigstocke
by XANTHE BROOKE

George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City, J. King
by MICHAEL HALL

The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti, C. Strehlke and M.B. Israëls
by FRANK DABELL

The Inspirational Genius of Germany: British Art and Germanism 1850–1939, M.C. Potter
by CHRISTIAN WEIKOP

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

EXHIBITIONS
Art from the Pacific Northwest
by RICHARD WOLFE

Maria Lassnig
by ALICE SPAWLS

Russian art 1917–32
by ANDREW SPIRA

Elton John’s photography collection
by MARINA VAIZEY

David Hockney
by DAVID ANFAM

Eduardo Paolozzi
by SAM CORNISH

Winifred Nicholson
by JUDITH COLLINS

Antonio Balestra
by ALBERTO CRAIEVICH

Impressionism at the Palazzo Barberini
by MICHAEL CLARKE

Beneath Italian skies
by LORENZ VAN DER MEIJ

Ribera’s drawings
by MARK MCDONALD

The First Golden Age
by CELINA FOX

Francis Picabia
by TREVOR STARK

CALENDAR