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Author Dacia Maraini's conjectures before a painting of two little girls by Antonietta Raphaël.
The many-coloured and inventive world of the Portuguese ceramics master Bordalo Pinheiro.
Stunningly refined portraits of botanists done by Gaetano Gandolfi for Bologna’s “Pinacotheca Bassiana”.
Even an educated eye can glaze over, wearied by all the beautiful things it has seen. H.A. Faciolince faces the portrait of Cornelis Van der Geest.
Joris-Karl Huysmans' ekfrasis in the novel À rebours alongside two Salomès by Gustave Moreau, master of the Sublime.
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.
Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.
Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.
An overview of the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, with a special focus on Serpotta’s stuccowork.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
Laughter and jests, perhaps disguised as something else, might be the true subject of a work of art – especially if the artist is Jan Steen.
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 entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
Mr PA's third visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is all about Cézanne's Card Players.
Poet Rosita Copioli’s flash of inspiration about the basrelief of Mercury in Rimini’s Malatesta Temple.
The peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.
The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
The world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.
