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The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
The Casa Madre dell’Associazione Nazionale fra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra, designed by Piacentini, houses works by Wildt and Sironi, among others.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul is closely bound up with the Nobel Laureate’s novel of the same name; Pamuk here tells about their genesis.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
The English landscape garden at the Royal Palace of Caserta hides many more secrets than its cool shadows let on.
The Neo-Andean Baroque buildings by the Bolivian acrhitect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, above La Paz.
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
On the occasion of an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, a captivating journey through the treasures of the Pharaohs.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
