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Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.
The world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.
Half painting and half diorama, the great “cyclorama” of the Battle of Atlanta recounts a moment in American history as well as commemorating a long-lost figurative genre.
Narrowly art historical – but also philosophical and political – aspects of the life story of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
Nature harnessed into the Marmore Waterfalls, created in the years of the Republic of Rome, became a must-see on the Grand Tour.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
Winckelmann’s Roman life in a “spoken portrait” that brings to light both personal and secret aspects.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
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.
