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The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.
The most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.
A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
The work of painter Emanuele Cavalli, steeped in complex and nebulous esotericism, tells us much about the School of Rome and all that ensued in its wake.
Two paintings by Manet, likely the inspiration for an episode narrated by Proust, serve as the starting point for an examination of the presence of asparagus in literature and painting alike.
The wooden St Rocco from the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, much admired by Giorgio Vasari, was almost taken to Germany during World War II.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
The highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
Joris-Karl Huysmans' ekfrasis in the novel À rebours alongside two Salomès by Gustave Moreau, master of the Sublime.
A bust in polychrome marble at Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome) depicts the Congolese ambassador to the Holy See from the turn of the 1600s, António Manuel Ne Vunda.
Forty years after André Chastel's renowned essay Musca Depicta, the Labirinto della Masone pays homage by bringing together painted flies from all over Europe.
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
The D&G show at Milan’s Palazzo Reale pays homage to femininity and Sicily, in an apotheosis of Italian style.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
On the occasion of an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, a captivating journey through the treasures of the Pharaohs.
This time, in his feature on the shapes of art, Mariotti reflects on the spiral, which takes centre stage in a work by Léon Spilliaert.
Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
The painter, architect, and set designer Andrei Beloborodov dreamed of a silent world of ancient ruins flooded by vast waters.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
