No.10,
Summer Solstice 2024

The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.

Can a colour without a name exist? Perhaps not, but there is a colour on the scale that doesn't correspond to anything specific: indigo.

An extraordinary Mexican photographic campaign and two learned articles revive the poetics of Hungarian artist and designer Géza Maróti.

Nature harnessed into the Marmore Waterfalls, created in the years of the Republic of Rome, became a must-see on the Grand Tour.

The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.

Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.

Joris-Karl Huysmans' ekfrasis in the novel À rebours alongside two Salomès by Gustave Moreau, master of the Sublime.

Personal thoughts and profound memories reawakened by an object as simple and unassuming as a coin bank.

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.

Exploring buxus, a wood substitute for veneers and inlays that became widely popular in autarkic Italy under the regime.