Our cover illustration is St Peter in Tears by El Greco, one of a number of paintings for Toledo cathedral and its sacristy commissioned around 1600 by Diego da Castilla, the Dean, or Garcia de Loaysa, the cathedral warden and future arcyhbishop. Sets of Apostolados seem to have been part of Domenico's stock in trade at this time. The set in the sacristy at the cathedral is matched by a similar set now in the Casa El Greco in the same city. None of these other works, however, has the emotional content and psychological perception of this representation of Peter at the very moment when awareness his his betrayal has moved him to grief and repentance. The intensity of the painting is the more remarkable considering what is known of the tempestuous relationship between the artist and his patrons on this and other contemporary commissions