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The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
An overview of the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, with a special focus on Serpotta’s stuccowork.
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.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
For the first time, the Accademia Carrara is set to reunite the Visconti-Sforza “Colleoni” tarot deck with other artistic tarot cards from every century.
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.
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
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 Biblia pauperum of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo as described by Vittorio Sgarbi, in part through the inspired words of Giovanni Testori.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
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.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
