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Articles in Feb, 2005 issue of Apollo

• French Painting in the Golden Age
  by David Mandrella
• 10 to catch: APOLLO'S selection for the month ahead
• Silver in London: the Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776
  by Pippa Shirley
• Landscape gardens in essence
  by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
• The Corning Museum of Glass, NY, has just made accessible two new archives which were acquired last year, that relate to Tiffany Studios and Lalique
• Fearless protest: Robert Byron, born a hundred years ago, was an architectural critic and polemicist whose passionate invective is needed today more than ever
  by Gavin Stamp
• Rubens as draughtsman: Christopher Baker discusses the Albertina's major exhibition of Rubens's drawings, which transferred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, last month
  by Christopher Baker
• Gian Cristoforo Romano's bust of Isabella d'Este
  by Timothy Potts
• Jean Helion
  by Didier Ottinger
• The Bone beneath the Pulp: drawings by Wyndham Lewis
  by Jacky Klein
• Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer invites you to enjoy graphic art of a remarkable diversity and quality this month in London, Dublin and New York
  by Susannah Woolmer
• From Flanders to Florence: the Impact of Netherlands Painting
  by Eckart Marchand
• Creative Tension: British Art 1900-1950
• The Barnes Foundation's bad move
  by Michael Hall
• Scrutinously modelled: as a painting of a supermodel joins fine twentieth-century works on offer in London, Old Masters and a Roman mosaic grace Palm Beach
  by Susan Moore
• New York news
  by Louise Nicholson
• London news: the East End's most prominent gallery is expanding, Samson Spanier visits the site, a library that once served David Bomberg and Jacob Epstein
  by Samson Spanier
• Antique arms and armour: 2003 and 2004 saw collectors and dealers acquiring good-quality material in good condition, auction houses achieving steady prices, with some surprises, and museums making carefully selected purchases
  by Stephen Wood
• Christ at the column: a new acquisition for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  by Carmen C. Bambach
• Wyndham Lewis: an exhibition within the Fine Art, Design & Antiques fair Olympia London 1-6 March 2005
  by Angus Stewart
• Prints and books
• A portrait of the master painter of posters: Howard Coutts discusses the newly-discovered watercolour original of a portrait of Jules Cheret, one of the most celebrated poster artists of belle-epoque Paris
  by Howard Coutts
• Best sellers the British Museum
• The loan exhibition at the spring Olympia Fine Art & Antiques fair has become a highlight of the London exhibitions calendar
  by Michael Hall
• The USA's Department of State has made its first direct contribution to the preservation of Khmer heritage in Cambodia
• Degas and Manet: a study in friendship: Jeffrey Meyers explores the intense, admiring, but often wary relationship between two great artists whose lives, as well as art, had many parallels
  by Jeffrey Meyers
• Treasure houses of Germany: the display in Munich of works of art from aristocratic collections has been condemned in the German press as a 'selling exhibition', but it should be considered a wake-up call to the country's cultural guardians, as Philippa G
  by Philippa Glanville
• Works on paper
• Thomas Banks's missing 'Cupid': the sculptor Thomas Banks is currently the subject of an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum. Its curator, Julius Bryant, tells the story of one of Banks's most celebrated works, purchased by Catherine the Great, which va
  by Julius Bryant
• Splendid hedonism: Peter Humfrey reviews an exhibition of Veronese's secular art, which transfers from Paris to Venice later this month
  by Peter Humfrey
• Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature
  by Rodney Engen
• American and Polish military forces have caused extensive damage to the site of the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq, according to a damning report released last month by John Curtis, keeper of the Ancient Near East department at the British Museum
• Jewels of two empires: an exhibition at Malmaison of jewellery of the First and Second Empires is a poignant as well as an engrossing experience
  by Diana Scarisbrick
• Matisse at Villa le Reve
  by Michael Hall
• Works in oil
• Vital English art: futurism and the vortex of London 1910-14: C.R.W. Nevinson's pre-war association with the Italian Futurists profoundly affected his art but led to an irreparable split with the rest of the English avant-garde. Michael Walsh explores Nev
  by Michael Walsh
• The entrepreneur of the new: art nouveau takes its name from a gallery in Paris opened by Samuel Bing in 1895. But who was Bing, and what did he sell? Julian Treuherz visits an exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum that provides the answers
  by Julian Treuherz