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Articles in June, 2004 issue of Apollo

• 10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland
  by David M. Wilson
• Agnew's
  by Susannah Woolmer
• NASA
  by Samson Spanier
• The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair
• High horizons: David Platzer reviews a remarkable exhibition of Manet's seascapes which moves this month from Philadelphia to Amsterdam. What did Manet learn from seventeenth-century Dutch art?
  by David Platzer
• Campbell Wilson are currently staging an attractive selling exhibition of drawings and watercolours by the prolific artists Frank Cadogan Cowper and Arthur Joseph Gaskin
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Inside the house of England's greatest commoner
  by Michael Hall
• The devastation of Florence: in the January 1967 edition, John Pope-Hennessy published a detailed account of his first-hand survey of the damage to Florence's art after the flood of the previous November
  by John Pope-Hennessy
• The Courtauld Institute of Art
  by Samson Spanier
• Marc Chagall and His Times: a Documentary Narrative
  by Sebastian Smee
• Didier Aaron, Inc
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Collectors in the shadows
  by Martin Bailey
• Although Americans take a fairly relaxed attitude to museums and galleries selling their works of art, two recent 'de-accession' cases are stirring controversy
  by Louise Nicholson
• The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair
• Interior monologues: Isabelle Anscombe admires the Geffrye Museum's exploration of images of Victorian interiors and gardens, which reveals the value judgements implicit in every detail, from wallpaper patterns to flowers
  by Isabelle Anscombe
• The well-known interior designer Alidad has recently launched his first range of furniture
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Burghley House
  by Samson Spanier
• Gulbenkian Prize
  by Samson Spanier
• Richard Ford 1796-1858: Hispanophile, Connoisseur and Critic
  by David Howart
• Galerie Schmit
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Six international fairs and a spectacular sequence of sales confirm London's status as the capital of the art world as the June season gets under way
  by Susan Moore
• The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar
• Landscape in the age of Tolstoy: later this month, an exhibition of nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting opens at the National Gallery, London, after being seen in Groningen
  by Inge Wierda
• Trinity Fine Art Ltd
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The eleventh Duke of Devonshire
  by Samson Spanier
• The March 1975 issue was devoted to articles on nineteenth-century art by the late painter, set-designer and historian Robin Ironside, whose elusive personality was recalled
  by Denys Sutton
• Quiet triumph for the Fitzwilliam: on 1 June, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge unveils a major addition to its buildings. Designed by John Miller + Partners, it is notable both for its quality and for what it reveals about the changing role of universi
  by Michael Hall
• Urbino: the Story of a Renaissance City
  by Susannah Woolmer
• A 'lascivious' painting for the Queen of England
  by Andaleeb Badiee Banta
• Plum cake in Bloomsbury: is the World Monuments Fund justified in its attempt to abolish three centuries of changes in its restoration of Hawksmoor's St George's, Bloomsbury?
  by Gavin Stamp
• Collecting: private pleasure, public virtue
  by Michael Hall
• A private sensibility: Simon Poe visits the newly opened Compton Verney, near Stratford-upon-Avon, a restored house by Robert Adam which is new home to the collections of Sir Peter Moores
  by Simon Poe
• 'Thirty Works by Modern Masters' is the enticing summer exhibition being launched this month by E&R Cyzer
  by Susannah Woolmer
• The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
  by Samson Spanier
• Faith and power: the Metropolitan Museum's triptych of Byzantine exhibitions reaches its conclusion with an unparalleled overview of the art of the Palaiologan era. Angeliki Lymberopoulou celebrates a remarkable achievement
  by Angeliki Lymberopoulo
• Art fortnight London
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Treasures for Temple Newsam
  by Emma Kirk
• Record auction sales at astonishing prices reinforce the growing strength of the contemporary and modern art market, but buyers will not compromise on quality and condition
  by Susan Moore
• Perugino: 'Il divin Pittore': a comprehensive exhibition of Perugino in his adopted city is notable for the reunification of altarpiece fragments or works intended to hang together
  by Francis Russell
• Rupert Wace Ancient Art, 14, Old Bond Street, London
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Le douanier as medium? Henri Rousseau and spiritualism: towards the end of his life, Henri Rousseau was often discussed with reference to the supernatural. As Nancy Ireson explains, spiritualism—like 'the primitive'—was one of the keys with whic
  by Nancy Ireson
• Silver: over the past couple of years the market for traditional areas, such as English Georgian silver, has been quiet, but high prices are being paid for outstanding designs and intriguing provenances
  by Lucy Morton