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The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
The ceiling of the Sala dei Baroni in the Palazzo Chiaromonte “Steri” in Palermo, with its repertoire of stories, is a masterpiece of figurative medieval art.
Exploring buxus, a wood substitute for veneers and inlays that became widely popular in autarkic Italy under the regime.
Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.
After abdicating the throne, Queen Christina of Sweden moved to Rome, where she devoted herself fully to her great vocation as patron of the arts and collector.
Franco Maria Ricci describes his last trip outside of Italy, in Portugal, dwelling on the Jerónimos Monastery.
Narrowly art historical – but also philosophical and political – aspects of the life story of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo.
At the edge of Barcelona nestles a collection of buildings by Xavier Corberó: a vision, perhaps a mirage that speaks to the illusive nature of art.
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.
Hearst Castle’s Roman Pool, a sumptuous creation by Julia Morgan, serves as a metaphor for the spirit of California.
Stunningly refined portraits of botanists done by Gaetano Gandolfi for Bologna’s “Pinacotheca Bassiana”.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
The works of Indian photographer Dayanita Singh in homage to Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Orhan Pamuk, showing their unmistakable bond.
The Masonic park of the Villa Durazzo Pallavicini in Pegli (near Genoa), conceived as a theatrical spectacle.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
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 world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.
The Sonrientes, pre-Columbian statuettes from southern Mexico, conceal archaic mysteries under the seal of gaiety.
Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.
The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.
Contemporary etcher Érik Desmazières offers a surprising reworking of the Wunderkammer and Cabinet de Curiosités subjects.
