No.5,
Vernal Equinox 2023

Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.

Screenwriter Don Campbell brings us his treatment for a tv series in development, Icarus, the story of humankind’s first lighter-than-air flights.

"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.

An apocryphal version of the Flight into Egypt by French illustrator Luc-Olivier Merson, set in the Gizah Plateau.

A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.

Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.

The Neo-Andean Baroque buildings by the Bolivian acrhitect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, above La Paz.

Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.