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Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.

The work of painter Emanuele Cavalli, steeped in complex and nebulous esotericism, tells us much about the School of Rome and all that ensued in its wake.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Autumn set a record at auction for the Baroque maestro. Massimo Navoni speaks of it.

For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.

It may seem easy, but not everyone can raise the bar: only the stars know how, in sports as on the art market.

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

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

The most recent "apparitions" of previously unseen paintings by Rembrandt and their adventures on the art market.

The records at auction of paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Fede Galizia, as told by Simone Facchinetti.

The recent success at auction of the works of Lavinia Fontana, a painter from Bologna who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries.

At auction at Sotheby's, the soup tureen from the legendary silver set commissioned by Catherine II for her lover, Count Orlov.

The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.

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

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 highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.

The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.

"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.

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

Sublimely enigmatic, the Mona Lisa is one of the most-imitated works in history. But how much are these copies worth on today's art market?

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

When a fragment of a painting becomes an independent work, finding its own success on the art market.

The five large-scale paintings made by Benedetta Cappa Marinetti for Palermo's Palazzo delle Poste represent a merging of Futurist formal dynamism and Mediterranean chromatic lyricism.

Often the hidden face of a painting, its back or its verso, tells more secrets than the face on display.

The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.