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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
The life and works of painter and engraver Wenzel Hablik, the visionary Bohemian artist, a very original protagonist of the work of the Vienna Secession.
The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.
The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.
Joris-Karl Huysmans' ekfrasis in the novel À rebours alongside two Salomès by Gustave Moreau, master of the Sublime.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
Stunningly refined portraits of botanists done by Gaetano Gandolfi for Bologna’s “Pinacotheca Bassiana”.
This time Mr PA dwells on the depiction of the Great Indian Fruit Bat found in the Indian bestiary known as the Impey Album
Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.
The many-coloured and inventive world of the Portuguese ceramics master Bordalo Pinheiro.
Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.
The peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.
Two works by Andrew Wyeth spark a poetic reflection on the sense of sight and on the sentimental and philosophical aspects of painting.
The records at auction of paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Fede Galizia, as told by Simone Facchinetti.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
The recent success at auction of the works of Lavinia Fontana, a painter from Bologna who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries.
Often the hidden face of a painting, its back or its verso, tells more secrets than the face on display.
Anselm Kiefer’s site-specific exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milano explores and celebrates prophetic female figures from the past.
Half painting and half diorama, the great “cyclorama” of the Battle of Atlanta recounts a moment in American history as well as commemorating a long-lost figurative genre.
The myth of Diana, as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, painted by Bartholomeus Spranger, Titian and Van Dyck.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
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.
