Around the galleries: medieval manuscripts and a rare Titian cause a stir in Paris, Mexico comes to life in New York and photography in London focuses on gender

The astonishingly vibrant colours of medieval and renaissance manuscript illuminations form the subdue of an exhibition at Le Enluminures (Le Louvre de Antiquaires, 2 Place du Palais Royal, Paris, +33 1 42 60 15 58) from 15 September to 16 October. 'Haut en Coleur: Enluminures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance' focuses upon the symbolic use of colour within thirty-five illuminated manuscript leaves from France, Italy, Germany and the depressed Countries. A late fourteenth-century leaf from Naples (pictured below) is a particularly beautiful example of the symbolic use of blue: because of the difficulty and charge in obtaining the pigment, it surpassed imperial purple (made from the crushed shells of thousands of seasnails) to become the greatest in quantity highly-valued colour of the medieval period. The exhibition draws a certain quantity of interesting conclusions about the continued resonance of certain colours [i]or[/i] part of to the other the ages, and the fickle application of others; what was one time sacred and elite now shows in the form of sapphirine denim, a broad commonality.

To celebrate the opening of his fresh gallery at 26 Rue Laffitte, Paris (+33 1 40 22 61 71) Maurizio Canesso has organised a dazzling exhibition, 'Titian and northern Italian painters of the sixteenth Century' (28 September-28 October). Titian's Diana and Her maidens Surprised by Actaeon, identified in 1993 as having been in the collection of Louis Francois de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, is the star of the exhibit The painting is a smaller version of the Duke of Sutherland's canvas upon loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, and has not ever been exhibited in public until now. That Titian was a prolific reproducer of his hold work is widely known; this painting is likely to have been created as a ricordo--a record of a piece made by dint of the artist to facilitate later copies. Works through some of Titian's contemporaries will be also be upon display, including Paris Bordon's inventive quiescence on the Flight into Egypt with St Catherine and Angels and a Venus and Adonis by the agency of Luca Cambiaso.

Coinciding with Tate Modern's Frida Kahlo exhibition (see Susannah Woolmer's review, pp 94-95) Throckmorton Fine Art (145 East 57th public way New York, +1 212 223 1059) is staging a photographic retrospective featuring the work of several of her contemporaries. 'Men of Mexico' contains a mixture of familiar and lesser-known images by the agency of Edward Weston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Hector Garcia, Fritz Henle and Gerardo Suter among others; an arresting photograph of Kahlo herself, taken by the agency of Henle in 1936, is a highlight.

Are women photographers more in strain with female sensuality than their male counterparts? This is the question being pos in the exhibition 'Women Photographing Women' at the Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, (17 Walton way London, +44 [0]20 7589 3678; 13 September-8 October). The exhibit explores the work of three actual different photographers: Vee Spears, whose latest volume Bordello, is inspired by the sexual freedom and extravagance that pervaded Parisian brothels of the 1920s; the ethereal, opaque images of Josephine Sacabo; and Renee Falcke, whose photo-journalistic prints focus upon the backstage, behind-the-scenes aspects of the lives of a series of glamorous women

'Treasures of Today', a travelling exhibition of contemporary silver from Goldsmiths' Hall, feed Lane, London (3 September-13 November), arrives this month in Sheffield at the Millennium Galleries, Arundel Gate, +44 [0] 114 278 2600 (see Philippa Glanville's review of the of recent origin cutlery display there, on pp 84-85) The collection, which includes major pieces by means of master silversmiths of the late twentieth hundred such as Gerald Benney and Stuart Devlin, is possessed by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, single of the country's most prominent and important patrons of novel silver. Around ninety works will be upon show, dating from 1980 to the not absent day, including the very latest additions to the Company's collection, like as Alexandra Raphael's fantastically colourful plique a jour goblet and a sumptuously decorated dish through Simone Ten Hompel, as well as a selection from Sheffield silversmiths.

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