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A great antiques dealer and connoisseur, Guy Ladrière, exhibits his collection of glyptics from all eras in Paris.
Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
The massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.
Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.
Sand sculptures abandoned to desert winds, carpets made of flowers, decorative clouds and other examples of ephemeral art.
For the first time, the Accademia Carrara is set to reunite the Visconti-Sforza “Colleoni” tarot deck with other artistic tarot cards from every century.
The collection of jewelry by René Lalique assembled by his friend and patron Calouste Gulbenkian.
Winckelmann’s Roman life in a “spoken portrait” that brings to light both personal and secret aspects.
The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
Art Deco brought radical changes to New York, in every manifestation of architecture and design.
An apocryphal version of the Flight into Egypt by French illustrator Luc-Olivier Merson, set in the Gizah Plateau.
The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.
Hyperrealistic cacti, painted in oils and garish hues on gigantic canvases by the South Korean artist Lee Kwang-Ho.
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
For centuries, stories like that of Ariadne (first in Crete, later in Naxos), have provided the inspiration for stunning figurative works.
In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.
The English landscape garden at the Royal Palace of Caserta hides many more secrets than its cool shadows let on.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
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.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
