No.2,
Summer Solstice 2022

The myth of Diana, as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, painted by Bartholomeus Spranger, Titian and Van Dyck.

The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.

One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.

Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.

A great antiques dealer and connoisseur, Guy Ladrière, exhibits his collection of glyptics from all eras in Paris.

The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.

The most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.

The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.

The record sale of Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries, at auction in Paris.