Catherine E. King's book reviewed

This study maintains that Verrocchio’s “Tobias and the angel” in London is the first example of the artist’s hand

A critical look at old and new conservation and preservation techniques

Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay

The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail

Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth (eds), Studies in the history of painting restoration

Over twenty-five years this Anglo-American has built up a great library of early books, manuscripts and incunabula

Three books demonstrate the revival of interest in portrait miniatures and the leading role of the Victoria and Albert Museum in this field

A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium

Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position

The history, form and function of European ironwork

A Review of Mora's new book on photography

St Clair demands greater candour in the fallout of Lord Elgin and the Marbles' third edition, in which it was asserted that over-cleaning had irreparably damaged the marbles

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art

The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut

Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"

Ian Gibson on Surrealism as an escape and the façade of eccentricity

Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies

A useful guide to European sculpture terminology

A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware

This handy book is a reliable and well presented dictionary of terms used in European sculpture.

Synopsis of Sebastião Salgado's reissued paperback.

“Today the photo magazines have all folded or been turned into vehicles for lifestyles and personality portraits”

No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures

The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

This study of the Suprematist artist fails to recognise that his mathematical games were metaphorical, not computational

Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments