No.8,
Winter Solstice 2023

The wooden St Rocco from the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, much admired by Giorgio Vasari, was almost taken to Germany during World War II.

Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.

The glittering jewelry collection of the Royal House of Braganza, preserved at Lisbon’s Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.

Sand sculptures abandoned to desert winds, carpets made of flowers, decorative clouds and other examples of ephemeral art.

The life and work of the Polish-Jewish painter Morris Hirshfield, who worked in the United States from 1937 in 1946.

A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.

The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.

Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.