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Articles in March 2007 issue of Apollo

• A turner reclaimed: Eric Shanes re-examines a watercolour in the National Museum of Wales and concludes that its much-doubted attribution to Turner is correct. This remarkably beautiful image of a church and rainbow probably reflects anxiety in the 1830s
  by Eric Shanes
• 'The good carver named Conrad': Conrat Meit in Munich: Constance Lowenthal welcomes a pioneering exhibition on one of the greatest renaissance sculptors of northern Europe
  by Constance Lowenthal
• Monet's Boulevard des Capucines: Kansas City or Moscow? At the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, Monet's Boulevard des Capucines was both praised and reviled as an exemplar of the new style. However, it has never been clear which of his two 1873-74
  by Ian Kennedy
• Ravishing prospects: the subtleties of Jan van der Heyden's topographical paintings are elucidated in an exhibition that opened last month at the Rijksmuseum
  by Amy Walsh
• Art that just goes 'ping': Sandback's vibration: the radical simplicity of Fred Sandback's work—installations created with just a ball of twine—have paradoxically led to a multiplicity of complex and often conflicting interpretations, assessed h
  by David Raskin
• Van Gogh was father to us all: Martin Bailey visits two major Van Gogh exhibitions, one in Amsterdam and New York, on his influence on Expressionism, the other an ambitious Hungarian blockbuster
  by Martin Bailey
• Le gout francais in Trafalgar Square
  by Michael Hall
• Antonello's lost 'St Augustine': a painting in its landscape: concluding her investigation of an altarpiece panel depicting St Augustine, Joanne Wright argues that its accurate depiction of a landscape near Messina both strengthens the painting's attribut
  by Joanne Wright
• A forgotten modern master: a survey of the paintings of the Catalan artist Anglada-Camarasa persuasively sets him in the context of avant-garde European art in the first half of the 20th century
  by Maria Villalonga Cabeza de Vaca
• Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead
• Looking down on design: THE V&A's surrealist show provokes the question why today's artists seem to have no time for the decorative arts
  by Martin Gayford
• Tribute by a rosbif: a study of Hogarth's relationship with France reveals that his public disdain for the country concealed a deep admiration evident in his work
  by David Platzer
• Louise Nicholson visits Lever House, the city's first glass-skinned building, now imaginatively restored and the backdrop to a major public art initiative
  by Louise Nicholson
• A Canova for today: Alexander Stoddart's superb sculture in the classical tradition has inspired some fruitful collaborations with contemporary architects
  by Gavin Stamp
• An English family in Rubens's house: Susan Bracken reviews an exploration of the life led in Antwerp by the patron and collector William Cavendish and his family
  by Susan Bracken
• Madame His by Jean-Antoine Houdon The Frick Collection, New York
  by Anne L. Poulet
• Triumphal March: this month sees two of the art world's greatest annual events: the Maastricht Fair, which offers the last privately owned history painting by David, and Asia week in New York, whose highlights are sales by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  by Susan Moore
• 'Learned and useful works': nothing can conceal the fact that Evelyn lacked humour, but a thorough biography reveals his compensating intellectual energy, not least in garden design and horticulture
  by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
• Roll up, roll up, for the greatest art museum on earth: the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, built in 1925-30 by the circus impresario John Ringling, has just completed a major restoration and expansion. Its 66 acres are home not only to outstanding Old Master
  by Susan Moore
• Indian miniatures: traditionally popular with the British, miniatures are now being avidly sought by a new generation of Indian collectors
  by Lucian Harris
• 600 churches for the people: by 1856, the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1825 had helped to pay for over 600 new churches. Peter Howell reviews a magisterial account of the architectural consequences
  by Peter Howell
• Egypt's: sunken treasures: an exhibition at the Grand Palais presents the astonishing finds made in the Nile delta over the past 15 years by the French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio. Guy Weill Goudchaux assesses their significance for our knowled
  by Guy Weill Goudchaux
• Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer admires spectacular treasures from the Goldmiths' Company in London and tours Asia Week's shows in New York
  by Susannah Woolmer
• 'Steery, starry, stotty': Peyton Skipwith reviews a history of the New English Art Club, which has provided a lively, democratic platform for exhibitions since 1884
  by Peyton Skipwith
• Brancusi's women: Constantin Brancusi died 50 years ago this month. To mark this anniversary, Sanda Miller draws on the sculptor's recently released private papers to explore his relationships with the women who sat to him for portraits, which include som
  by Sanda Miller
• Art business: as a new art fair opens in Dubai, Ben Wright examines the benefits and costs to dealers of international fairs
  by Ben Wright
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  by Denys Sutton