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Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
On the occasion of an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, a captivating journey through the treasures of the Pharaohs.
The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.
A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
An overview of the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, with a special focus on Serpotta’s stuccowork.
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”.
Often the hidden face of a painting, its back or its verso, tells more secrets than the face on display.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
