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Mr PA's third visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is all about Cézanne's Card Players.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
This time Mr PA dwells on the depiction of the Great Indian Fruit Bat found in the Indian bestiary known as the Impey Album
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
The most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.
The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.
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.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
The formative years of Paolo Caliari, better known as Paolo Veronese, as told in the words of the curator of the major exhibition at the Prado (2025).
An extraordinary Mexican photographic campaign and two learned articles revive the poetics of Hungarian artist and designer Géza Maróti.
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
The collection of jewelry by René Lalique assembled by his friend and patron Calouste Gulbenkian.
Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.
A manuscript with an adventuresome background takes us to Eastern lands colonized by Europeans in the sixteenth century.
The Palace of Italian Institutions in Tangier, built by a sultan who never lived there, is a veritable kaleidoscope of detailed decorations.
"Fabric Sculptures", or Roberto Capucci's clothing. Adapting fabrics, forcing them into the structure of an item of clothing was his life's work.
In Renaissance Florence it was customary to bring refreshments to new mothers on artistically decorated trays.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
The splendor of the Padiglione delle Feste at the Grand Hotel of the Thermal Spa of Castrocaro, decorated by Tito Chini.
Anselm Kiefer’s site-specific exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milano explores and celebrates prophetic female figures from the past.
The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
