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One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul is closely bound up with the Nobel Laureate’s novel of the same name; Pamuk here tells about their genesis.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
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 dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
The Casa Madre dell’Associazione Nazionale fra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra, designed by Piacentini, houses works by Wildt and Sironi, among others.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
The Neo-Andean Baroque buildings by the Bolivian acrhitect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, above La Paz.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
On the occasion of an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, a captivating journey through the treasures of the Pharaohs.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
