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Articles in March 2006 issue of Apollo

• Rembrandt diary
• A Capriccio Rediscovered
• Asset-stripping: indifferent to the wishes of founders and donors, schools, hospitals and monasteries are selling off furniture, art and buildings for financial gain
  by Gavin Stamp
• Mumbai news: as India's second city becomes a global financial centre, conservationists are finding powerful new allies in the battle to protect its rich architectural heritage, writes Louise Nicholson
  by Louise Nicholson
• Moore and his mother: James Hall is pleased to see Henry Moore return to arthistorical scrutiny in a bold study of pre-war British sculpture that poses more questions than it answers
  by James Hall
• The Pope's museum: in the June 1991 issue, John Pope-Hennessy's waspish memoirs were given a stinging review by John Rowlands, then Keeper of Prints and drawings at the British Museum
  by John Rowlands
• Meltdown at the crafts council?
  by Michael Hall
• The Uffizi's master juggler: there was outrage last year when Antonio Paolucci, the head of Florence's museums, appointed himself director of the Uffizi. In a rare interview, he explains to Carla Passino how he copes with both roles—and outlines his
  by Carla Passino
• A fossilised stylist or admirably eclectic? Marco Palmezzano is usually dismissed as a conservative painter shaped by the many artistic influences in his native Forli in the fifteenth century. Tom Henry visits an exhibition there that reveals an unexpecte
  by Tom Henry
• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• Pin-ups & Packaging collage, collecting and Peter Blake: intimately linked with his art, Peter Blake's collections are the subject of an exhibition at this year's Olympia Fine Art, Design & Antiques Fair. Bevis Hillier visited him in his London st
  by Bevis Hillier
• A Franco-German affair: an exhibition in Paris, Munich and Bonn of French paintings from German collections is chiefly important because of its mighty accompanying catalogue
  by Robert Oresko
• Culture vultures: is UK arts policy damaging the arts? Arts policy in the UK is being debated passionately after the publication of a polemical book that criticises the government
  by Samson Spanier
• In search of Holbein's Thomas Wyatt the younger: Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger—who was beheaded for treason in 1554—was thought to be known only from copies. Roy Strong reveals that this innovatory masterpiece survives
  by Roy Strong
• Sculptors resized: Peyton Skipwith welcomes an exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery that focuses on two twentieth-century British sculptors, one very famous and one neglected, Jacob Epstein and Dora Gordine
  by Peyton Skipwith
• Rare coin saved
• God creates eve: a newly discovered drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro this magnificent study of God is almost certainly a fragment of a drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro for the famous fresco of God Creating Eve in the Villa Farnese at Caprarola
  by Gregory Muenzen
• A classical fantasia: Carl Laubin has resurrected all C.R. Cockerell's major works in one ambitious, extraordinary painting
  by David Watkin
• Exhibitions galore
• Gauguin and a brothel in Arles: Gauguin's stay in Arles with Van Gogh in 1888 had a transforming impact on his art parry because it was also a time of sexual awakening, argues Martin Gayford, using newly discovered evidence
  by Martin Gayford
• Asia week in New York: Susannah Woolmer previews the highlights of the art on offer in the fairs and exhibitions of New York's vibrant Asia Week
  by Susannah Woolmer
• Renaissance in research
• Silver for holy days: the newly opened 'Sacred Silver' gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, contains an impressive array of Jewish art from the middle ages to the present day. As Louise Hofman explains, these splendid objects demonstrate the
  by Louise Hofman
• Old master sculpture: eye-catching images with exciting provenances are regularly smashing the old 'glass ceiling' of 1 million [pounds sterling] in this specialised market
  by Charles Avery
• Rembrandt the musical
• So beautiful she made men cry: Simon Poe welcomes a revealing biography of Marie Stillman, a Pre-Raphaelite painter who was famous for both her looks and her inexplicable marriage
  by Simon Poe
• Suit form to function: contemporary artists who dress unusually are drawing on a tradition of dandyism that is at least 150 years old
  by Martin Gayford
• Danish discoveries
• Hybrid houses in Tartary: James Stevens Curl reviews an account of the little-known Crimean houses, gardens and landscapes created by British designers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  by James Stevens Curl
• Fairing well: Maastricht's fine art fair tightens its grip on the market with an impressive showing of the world's top dealers in modern and contemporary art—but the fair's old masters are not to be outshone
  by Susan Moore