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The glittering jewelry collection of the Royal House of Braganza, preserved at Lisbon’s Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.
Sublimely enigmatic, the Mona Lisa is one of the most-imitated works in history. But how much are these copies worth on today's art market?
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.
The countless reflections of a portrait by Ingres which, according to a compelling conjecture, inspired painters from different generations.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
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 massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.
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.
We're presenting two Medieval decks of playing cards with a hunting motif in their entirety, a highly refined portrayal and record of court life at the time.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
Art Deco brought radical changes to New York, in every manifestation of architecture and design.
Mr PA's third visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is all about Cézanne's Card Players.
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 peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.
The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.
The most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
