No.16,
Winter Solstice 2025

Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.

In his landscape paintings, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjæstad’s interpretation of Scandinavian nature proves at once realistic and imbued with late-Romantic poetry.

The countless reflections of a portrait by Ingres which, according to a compelling conjecture, inspired painters from different generations.

Poetic insight infuses this souvenir of Giorgio Armani woven by Giovanni Mariotti a month after the great designer’s passing.

The astounding results recorded in three different marvels: a painting by Canaletto, a mirror by Claude Lalanne and a book by Galileo Galilei.

A conjecture as to the person depicted in a little-known work by Gustav Klimt interwoven with the motif of the “Black model of European painting”.

The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.

Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.