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The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.
Hearst Castle’s Roman Pool, a sumptuous creation by Julia Morgan, serves as a metaphor for the spirit of California.
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.
The massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
In Renaissance Florence it was customary to bring refreshments to new mothers on artistically decorated trays.
Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.
The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.
The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.
Personal thoughts and profound memories reawakened by an object as simple and unassuming as a coin bank.
Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
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.
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
The story of the women in the orbit of King Philip of Spain, and especially his second wife, Elisabeth Farnese.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
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 highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
