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One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
The dome painted by Correggio in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma at the heart of a new and original layout.
Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.
The peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.
The Palace of Italian Institutions in Tangier, built by a sultan who never lived there, is a veritable kaleidoscope of detailed decorations.
A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
Exploring buxus, a wood substitute for veneers and inlays that became widely popular in autarkic Italy under the regime.
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
The splendor of the Padiglione delle Feste at the Grand Hotel of the Thermal Spa of Castrocaro, decorated by Tito Chini.
Hearst Castle’s Roman Pool, a sumptuous creation by Julia Morgan, serves as a metaphor for the spirit of California.
An apocryphal version of the Flight into Egypt by French illustrator Luc-Olivier Merson, set in the Gizah Plateau.
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.
The Casa Madre dell’Associazione Nazionale fra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra, designed by Piacentini, houses works by Wildt and Sironi, among others.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.
An overview of the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, with a special focus on Serpotta’s stuccowork.
The formative years of Paolo Caliari, better known as Paolo Veronese, as told in the words of the curator of the major exhibition at the Prado (2025).
The procession of the Queen of Sheba as illustrated by Josep Maria Sert in a hall of the Wendel family’s Hôtel Particulier, now at the Musée Carnavalet.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
Winckelmann’s Roman life in a “spoken portrait” that brings to light both personal and secret aspects.
