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The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.
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.
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
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 astounding results recorded in three different marvels: a painting by Canaletto, a mirror by Claude Lalanne and a book by Galileo Galilei.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
The peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
A conjecture as to the person depicted in a little-known work by Gustav Klimt interwoven with the motif of the “Black model of European painting”.
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.
