No.6,
Summer Solstice 2023

Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.

In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.

The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”

Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.

The prestigious sale of Pierre de Crombruggh's library; his lifelong devotion had been collecting printed works on culinary art.

A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.

The life and works of Ugo Celada da Virgilio, a promising 20th-century Italian artist who worked in the shadows for most of his long life.

The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.