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Two commercial galleries are mounting interesting non-selling exhibitions this month. L'Oeil gourmand--A Journey through Neapolitan Still Life of the 17th Century is the title of a show at the Galerie Canesso in Paris until October 27. It features some fifty works from public and private collections and is sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Paris and the Capodimonte Musem in Naples. Veronique Damian of the Galerie Canesso curated the show in close collaboration with Nicola Spinosa, superintendent of fine arts for the Neapolitan provincial museums. The English edition of the accompanying catalogue, which contains essays by a number of scholars, may be ordered from the gallery's Web site (www.canesso.com). Proceeds from the sale of the catalogue will go toward the restoration of paintings and frames in the Capodimonte Museum.

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At the auctioneers Simon Chorley in Prink-nash Abbey Park in Gloucestershire, England, a loan exhibition of historical and contemporary examples of the Cotswold arts and crafts tradition is on view from October 13 until October 21. Entitled Cotswold Craftsmen 1894 to the Present Day, it includes more than 140 historical objects, mainly from private collections, among them a cabinet by Ernest Gimson, a hand mirror by Peter Waals, and a ceramic charger by Alfred and Louise Powell. The curator is Jenny Bailey, an independent scholar. There is no catalogue.

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Several other exhibitions are also of interest. A selection of nearly sixty previously unseen drawings by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is on view at the Leighton House Museum in London from October 12 until January 27, 2007. They come from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, which has a large collection of Burne-Jones's work, and the show is the result of a three-year research project to catalogue its Burne-Jones holdings. The curator is Tessa Sidey, curator of prints and drawings at the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; the ...