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

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 splendor of the Padiglione delle Feste at the Grand Hotel of the Thermal Spa of Castrocaro, decorated by Tito Chini.

Personal thoughts and profound memories reawakened by an object as simple and unassuming as a coin bank.

One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.

A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.

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 botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.

The elaborate forms of bread baked in Sardinia for the celebration of Easter and weddings offer an occasion to reflect on our daily food by definition.

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

Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.

The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.

Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.

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.