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The idea of Total Work of Art, the dream of Wagner and Klimt, concentrated in a 16-page booklet illustrated by Viennese Carl Otto Czeschka.
The Aeropainting that spread through Italy in the 1930s was a sort of airborne Futurism, though it preserved its original speed and dynamism.
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.
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.
The records at auction of paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Fede Galizia, as told by Simone Facchinetti.
Franco Maria Ricci describes his last trip outside of Italy, in Portugal, dwelling on the Jerónimos Monastery.
The splendor of the Padiglione delle Feste at the Grand Hotel of the Thermal Spa of Castrocaro, decorated by Tito Chini.
Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
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.
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.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
Venice's Palazzo Loredan is hosting an exhibit on Sanya Kantarovsky: the interplay between the architecture of the building and the artworks offers an opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of time.
Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.
Two works by Andrew Wyeth spark a poetic reflection on the sense of sight and on the sentimental and philosophical aspects of painting.
Can a colour without a name exist? Perhaps not, but there is a colour on the scale that doesn't correspond to anything specific: indigo.
In honour of the exhibit on Niagara Falls held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, we're revisiting the presence of this natural wonder in culture and the arts.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.
