Contents MARCH 2006

PETER BLAKE, , pp. 40-47

THOMAS WYATT THE YOUNGER , pp. 48-56

TADDEO ZUCCARO , pp. 58-63

13 EDITORIAL The future of the Crafts Council

14 10 TO CATCH What’s on around the world in March

19 LONDON NEWS Samson Spanier witnesses an angry debate about arts policy

20 REMBRANDT NEWS The artist’s 400th birthday is marked by a cornucopia of events, and new research

26 MUMBAI NEWS Louise Nicholson reports on the battle to protects the city’s historic buildings

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This month’s cover was specially created for APOLLOby Sir Peter Blake using his own photographs. See Bevis Hillier’s interview with Sir Peter on pp. 40-47.

30 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 vision for the gallery’s future.

40 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 studio to talk

about collecting. Photographs by Snowdon.

48 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.

58 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, argues Gregory Muenzen.

64 GAUGUIN AND A BROTHEL IN ARLES

Gauguin’s stay in Arles with Van Gogh in 1888 had a transforming

impact on his art partly because it was also a time of sexual

awakening, argues Martin Gayford, using newly discovered evidence.

72 SILVER FOR HOLY DAYS

The newly opened ‘Sacred Silver’ gallery at the Victoria and Albert

Museum, London, contains an impressive display of Jewish art from

the Middle Ages to the present day, as as Louise Hofman reveals.