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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.
Anselm Kiefer’s site-specific exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milano explores and celebrates prophetic female figures from the past.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
Winckelmann’s Roman life in a “spoken portrait” that brings to light both personal and secret aspects.
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.
The Codex Cospi, now at the University of Bologna, is one of only a very few pre-Columbian manuscripts still extant.
Two paintings by Manet, likely the inspiration for an episode narrated by Proust, serve as the starting point for an examination of the presence of asparagus in literature and painting alike.
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.
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.
Known as "mal de Suisse", nostalgia was viewed as a disease before a feeling. Matteo Fochessati studies its expressions in art and literature.
The works of Indian photographer Dayanita Singh in homage to Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Orhan Pamuk, showing their unmistakable bond.
The Casa Madre dell’Associazione Nazionale fra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra, designed by Piacentini, houses works by Wildt and Sironi, among others.
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.
The most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.
The “Geroglifici capricciosi et opere bellissime di Francesco Pianta” at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
The story of the women in the orbit of King Philip of Spain, and especially his second wife, Elisabeth Farnese.
The English landscape garden at the Royal Palace of Caserta hides many more secrets than its cool shadows let on.
The tropical welter of vegetation painted in the cloister of the Mexican monastery of Malinalco bears witness to the encounter (and clash) of cultures.
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
