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The ephemeral collection of Franco Maria Ricci's op eds, whimsical butterflies landing on the pages of FMR, now brought together in one volume.
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.
Poet Rosita Copioli’s flash of inspiration about the basrelief of Mercury in Rimini’s Malatesta Temple.
The deeper and less obvious meanings of the series “Primitive Humanity,” painted by Piero di Cosimo in the Florence of the Medici.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
The frescoes of the Palace of Sassuolo, the delicious retreat of the Dukes of Este, are a symphony of trompe-l’œil.
The works of contemporary sculptor Javier Marín preserve the painful memory of the violent history that gave rise to modern Mexican civilisation.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
The myth of Diana, as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, painted by Bartholomeus Spranger, Titian and Van Dyck.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
Anselm Kiefer’s site-specific exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milano explores and celebrates prophetic female figures from the past.
The “Geroglifici capricciosi et opere bellissime di Francesco Pianta” at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.
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.
The Casa Madre dell’Associazione Nazionale fra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra, designed by Piacentini, houses works by Wildt and Sironi, among others.
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.
Recollections and travel notes from a journey through the lovely Christian religious centers of Oaxaca.
