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A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
In his landscape paintings, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjæstad’s interpretation of Scandinavian nature proves at once realistic and imbued with late-Romantic poetry.
One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
Sublimely enigmatic, the Mona Lisa is one of the most-imitated works in history. But how much are these copies worth on today's art market?
The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
It may seem easy, but not everyone can raise the bar: only the stars know how, in sports as on the art market.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
The painter, architect, and set designer Andrei Beloborodov dreamed of a silent world of ancient ruins flooded by vast waters.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.
The life and work of the Polish-Jewish painter Morris Hirshfield, who worked in the United States from 1937 in 1946.
The countless reflections of a portrait by Ingres which, according to a compelling conjecture, inspired painters from different generations.
The record sale of Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries, at auction in Paris.
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.
The work of painter Emanuele Cavalli, steeped in complex and nebulous esotericism, tells us much about the School of Rome and all that ensued in its wake.
Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.
The “Geroglifici capricciosi et opere bellissime di Francesco Pianta” at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
Narrowly art historical – but also philosophical and political – aspects of the life story of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo.
The Accademia dei Facchini della Val Di Blenio represents one of the lesser-known yet most fascinating chapters of Renaissance art history and school of thought.
The tropical welter of vegetation painted in the cloister of the Mexican monastery of Malinalco bears witness to the encounter (and clash) of cultures.
The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.
After a lengthy and delicate restoration, Parmigianino's Vision of St Jerome is back on display at the National Gallery in London.
