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Forty years after André Chastel's renowned essay Musca Depicta, the Labirinto della Masone pays homage by bringing together painted flies from all over Europe.
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
The “Geroglifici capricciosi et opere bellissime di Francesco Pianta” at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
The English landscape garden at the Royal Palace of Caserta hides many more secrets than its cool shadows let on.
The many-coloured and inventive world of the Portuguese ceramics master Bordalo Pinheiro.
Stunningly refined portraits of botanists done by Gaetano Gandolfi for Bologna’s “Pinacotheca Bassiana”.
The five large-scale paintings made by Benedetta Cappa Marinetti for Palermo's Palazzo delle Poste represent a merging of Futurist formal dynamism and Mediterranean chromatic lyricism.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
The highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
Contemporary etcher Érik Desmazières offers a surprising reworking of the Wunderkammer and Cabinet de Curiosités subjects.
We're presenting two Medieval decks of playing cards with a hunting motif in their entirety, a highly refined portrayal and record of court life at the time.
The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
The life and work of the Polish-Jewish painter Morris Hirshfield, who worked in the United States from 1937 in 1946.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
The Arch of Trajan in Benevento speaks of his unrequited dream of spreading the Roman way into the distant and mythical lands of India.
Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
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.
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
An extraordinary Mexican photographic campaign and two learned articles revive the poetics of Hungarian artist and designer Géza Maróti.
