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Articles in June, 2005 issue of Apollo

• The Apollo Gallery in the Louwe: James Stevens Curl praises a well-illustrated and magnificently thorough account of the creation and many restorations of the Louvre's Apollo Gallery
  by James Stevens Curl
• Landscapes of the ancien regime: Robert Oresko reviews the Kunsthistorisches Museum's impressively comprehensive overview of the career of Bernardo Bellotto, which took the artist from Italy to Warsaw
  by Robert Oresko
• Around the galleries: spectacular ancient sculpture grabs the attention in London this month whilst outstanding Old Master paintings shine in New York
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Cataloguing the unsaleable: in the April 1989 issue, the publication of a catalogue of the collection of the dealer F. Mason Perkins prompted John Pope-Hennessy to recall his visits to Perkins in Assisi
  by John Pope-Hennessy
• Art and delight: Graham Reynolds, the eminent scholar best known for his work on portrait miniatures and on John Constable, talks frankly to Felicity Owen about his career, and in particular life at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which he joined in 1937
  by Felicity Owen
• Christie's has won a case at the Court of Appeal in London against a ruling that it was negligent to catalogue these two vases as 'Louis XV'
• Too many memorials: Britain's ever-growing number of World War II memorials are marked more by vanity and kitsch than dignity and restraint—unlike the monuments built after the Great War
  by Gavin Stamp
• A grammar of decoration: John Cornforth was a pioneering historian of interior decoration whose last work lays the scholarly foundation for the study of eighteenth-century interiors. Ian Gow celebrates the book and the career of its author, who was a cult
  by Ian Gow
• The British Stable: An architectural and social history: stables have found a champion in this beautifully illustrated study of their architecture and history
  by Lucy Worsley
• Mutual passions a public museum and private collectors
  by Malcolm Rogers
• Giving back the loot Nazi-era claims against UK museums: in 2000 the British government set up a panel to examine claims against UK museums by the heirs of collectors whose works of art had been looted during the Nazi era, Martin Bailey explains the backg
  by Martin Bailey
• English furniture 1720-1880: Michael Pick reviews the recent highlights of a market where provenance, a designer's or maker's name and a dash of the unusual or intriguing are all eagerly sought after, and in combination make for record prices
  by Michael Pick
• Publish and pay the cost
  by Tom Howells
• Deck's 'artistic faience' at the Musee Du Florival; Marthe and Rene Bloch-Angly have recently presented a munificent gift of ceramics by Theodore Deck to the Musee du Florival in Deck's native town, Guebwiller. It covers almost the full range of his outpu
  by Bernard Bumpus
• The Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, Sussex, is to expand
• The claims
• Minneapolis news: the most wide-ranging contemporary art museum outside New York has just opened a bold new extension. But, asks Louise Nicholson, does the Walker's addition really work?
  by Louise Nicholson
• 10 to catch: APOLLO'S selection for the month ahead
• A designer of distinction: the glassware of James Giles: to mark a major exhibition of work by James Giles, Andy McConnell reconstructs a little-known side of the career of this celebrated London porcelain decorator, his glassware. In the first of two art
  by Andy McConnell
• Private passions that benefit us all
  by Michael Hall
• Cimabue and Pisa: Simona Di Nepi reviews an enthralling exhibition in Pisa that makes a convincing case for the influence the city's painters had on the development of Tuscan art in the thirteenth century
  by Simona De Nepi
• Milan news: in a bid for promotion to the premier league of European cities, Milan has invited some of the world's most famous architects, including Daniel Libeskind and Norman Foster, to design large new developments. Carla Passino describes the proposal
  by Carla Passino
• Our cover depicts an important discovery that will be unveiled by Ronald Phillips Ltd at the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair , a tea urn of ormolu made in about 1770 for an unknown patron by Matthew Boulton
• Collecting contemporary decorative arts: this year's annual BADA loan exhibition at the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair showcases the works of some of the country's leading contemporary decorative artists. As Amicia de Moubray explains, the flourish
  by Amicia de Moubray
• The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 16-22 June the Great Room, Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London W1
• Age of anxiety: the Neue Galerie's exhibition of German and Austrian portrait photography from 1900 to 1938 reveals a vibrant art cut short by the Nazis
  by David Platzer
• Intimate Rubens: an exhibition of Rubens's oil sketches, which opens in Cincinnati this month, is a tribute to American collectors and scholars of the artist
  by J. Douglas Stewart
• The Summer Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair: Olympia, London W14 9-19 June
• Canaletto before England: an exhibition at Palazzo Guistiniani in Rome focuses on Canaletto's career before his departure for London in 1746. It is visually rewarding, writes Francis Russell, and reunites some paintings that have long been separated
  by Francis Russell
• Art in trust for Poland: Tim Knox describes the remarkable career of Count Andrew Ciechanowiecki, who saw his family homes in Poland destroyed in World War II and was imprisoned for six years by the Communists
  by Tim Knox