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Articles in Jan, 2005 issue of Apollo

• Woman with a hat
• Still life with bottle of wine, two glasses and a plate with bread and cheese
• Plate with rolls
• Street and stairs with two figures
• Dali backwards: a curious misjudgement and a tendentious omission slightly mar the principal artistic celebration of Salvador Dali's centenary year
  by Eric Shanes
• Two rats
• Vase with poppies
• The hill of Montmartre
• Self-portrait
• David Watkin welcomes a book on British twentieth-century houses that is unlike any other on the subject
  by David Watkins
• Sculpture is mesmerising: family values and mental illness prove enlightening at Sotheby's this month and Christie's offers paintings from the collection of APOLLO'S longest-serving editor
  by Susan Moore
• Miami news: Art Basel's outpost in Florida is brash, hedonistic, expensive—and packed with New York's art set, Louise Nicholson was there
  by Louise Nicholson
• A fitting marriage: leighton house is the ideal location for a highly focussed exhibition on the most expensive Victorian painting of the 1870s
  by Simon Poe
• Venus
• Still life with carnations
• Wheatfield with sheaves
• Power, gender and knights in armour: John Goodall reviews two books that take very different approaches to medieval representations of knights
  by John Goodall
• London news: the City is getting serious about making money from art. Samson Spanier follows the trail of bank notes
  by Samson Spanier
• Around the galleries: New York is a wintry wonderland this January as works on paper, contemporary British sculpture and ancient art abound
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Saving Van Eyck: the very first article in the very first APOLLO, in January 1925, was an account by Paul Lambotte, director of fine arts for Belgium, of the removal of Van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb altarpiece from St Bavon in Ghent by the cathe
  by Paul Lambotte
• Peasant woman head
• Still life with meat and vegetables
• Recumbent nude
• Village road with trees
• Best sellers architecture
• Stuffed green parrot
• 10 to catch: APPOLO'S selection for the month ahead
• Too widely drawn: The Louvre's latest exhibition of masterpieces from the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild is a missed opportunity
  by Alastair Laing
• Stieglitz from every angle: two simultaneous exhibitions on Alfred Stieglitz at the Musee d'Orsay reward David Platzer by examining the photographer in context, as patron, man of letters, apologist for African sculpture—and lover of Georgia O'Keeffe
  by David Platzer
• Seated female nude
• Red and white carnations
• Self-portrait
• Landscape near Auvers-sur-Oise
• Peasant making a basket
• Impression of 14 July
• Hill of Montmartre with quarry
• Group of cottages
• Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Antique Dealer
• The boulevard de Clichy
• Jean-Valentin Morel and the revival of the Lapidary's art: Isabelle Lucas describes the career of the remarkable French goldsmith who pioneered the taste for hard-stone vessels in renaissance taste. The article marks the acquisition by the Indianapolis Mu
  by Isabelle Lucas
• English drawings and watercolours: since the 1970s modest collectors and connoisseurs have been pushed out of the market, but a recent levelling out of prices means that they are back
  by Henry Oxley
• Private views: Lovis Corinth's self-portraiture is examined in depth in an exhibition in Hamburg
  by Eckart Marchand
• Eighty years on
  by Michael Hall
• Princely splendour: Philippa Glanville marvels at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's re-creation of one of the greatest renaissance Kunstkammers, which reveals a definitively German taste
  by Philippa Glanville
• Torso of Venus
• Vase with flowers and a bottle
• Wheat stacks with reaper
• The Northern Renaissance: a new survey of north European art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is admirably ambitious in scope, but ducks some fundamental issues
  by Douglas Brine
• Standing male nude
• Sorrowing woman
• Mountain landscape
• Duveen: a Life in Art: Meryle Secrest's biography of Joseph Duveen lamentably pulls its punches
  by Isabelle Anscombe
• Woman sitting by the fire
• Still life with herrings and tomatoes
• Vase with flowers, coffee pot and fruit
• Path between garden walls
• The critical landscape: Egon Schiele is famed for his figures, but many of his works were landscapes. Elizabeth Clegg reviews the first exhibition devoted to them, at the Leopold Museum, Vienna
  by Elizabeth Clegg
• A national character: the first ever major exhibition of Spanish portraiture unites the Prado's own holdings with El Grecos, Goyas and Picassos from around the world. Rosemarie Mulcahy delights in telling juxtapositions across five centuries
  by Rosemarie Mulcahy
• Anti-ugly: campaigning against ugly buldings may seem admirable—but a recent call for demolitions is based on philistinism
  by Gavin Stamp
• George I's coronation throne: Adam Bowett describes a major new discovery: the throne made by the royal joiner Richard Roberts for the coronation in 1714 of George I, one of only a handful of English coronation thrones to have survived
  by Adam Bowet
• Van Gogh the fakes debate
  by Martin Bailey
• Flower still life
• Moulin de la Galette
• Mountain landscape, 1889, Kroller-Muller Museum
• Peyton Skipwith reviews a meticulous biography that explores the contradictions of William Coldstream
  by Peyton Skipwith