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The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
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.
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.
The works of Indian photographer Dayanita Singh in homage to Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Orhan Pamuk, showing their unmistakable bond.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
Hearst Castle’s Roman Pool, a sumptuous creation by Julia Morgan, serves as a metaphor for the spirit of California.
The Codex Cospi, now at the University of Bologna, is one of only a very few pre-Columbian manuscripts still extant.
We're presenting two Medieval decks of playing cards with a hunting motif in their entirety, a highly refined portrayal and record of court life at the time.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
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.
The Casa Madre dell’Associazione Nazionale fra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra, designed by Piacentini, houses works by Wildt and Sironi, among others.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
A bust in polychrome marble at Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome) depicts the Congolese ambassador to the Holy See from the turn of the 1600s, António Manuel Ne Vunda.
Personal thoughts and profound memories reawakened by an object as simple and unassuming as a coin bank.
The life and work of the Polish-Jewish painter Morris Hirshfield, who worked in the United States from 1937 in 1946.
The wooden St Rocco from the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, much admired by Giorgio Vasari, was almost taken to Germany during World War II.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
This time Mr PA dwells on the depiction of the Great Indian Fruit Bat found in the Indian bestiary known as the Impey Album
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
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.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
