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The ceiling of the Sala dei Baroni in the Palazzo Chiaromonte “Steri” in Palermo, with its repertoire of stories, is a masterpiece of figurative medieval art.
One of the seven original short stories by Tiziano Scarpa, 2009 Premio Strega winner, inspired by the ceramics by duo Bertozzi & Casoni.
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.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
The world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.
Recollections and travel notes from a journey through the lovely Christian religious centers of Oaxaca.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
FMR celebrates the fragile beauty of glass with David Landau's "giardini di trasparenze" at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
The Aeropainting that spread through Italy in the 1930s was a sort of airborne Futurism, though it preserved its original speed and dynamism.
Even an educated eye can glaze over, wearied by all the beautiful things it has seen. H.A. Faciolince faces the portrait of Cornelis Van der Geest.
The ephemeral collection of Franco Maria Ricci's op eds, whimsical butterflies landing on the pages of FMR, now brought together in one volume.
A new auction record for a drawing by Rembrandt has been established with the portrait of a lion, sold in recent months by Sotheby's New York.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.
The Codex Cospi, now at the University of Bologna, is one of only a very few pre-Columbian manuscripts still extant.
The wooden St Rocco from the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, much admired by Giorgio Vasari, was almost taken to Germany during World War II.
Sand sculptures abandoned to desert winds, carpets made of flowers, decorative clouds and other examples of ephemeral art.
The deeper and less obvious meanings of the series “Primitive Humanity,” painted by Piero di Cosimo in the Florence of the Medici.
António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.
Hearst Castle’s Roman Pool, a sumptuous creation by Julia Morgan, serves as a metaphor for the spirit of California.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.
In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.
