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Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.

The collection of jewelry by René Lalique assembled by his friend and patron Calouste Gulbenkian.

The D&G show at Milan’s Palazzo Reale pays homage to femininity and Sicily, in an apotheosis of Italian style.

Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.

The Codex Cospi, now at the University of Bologna, is one of only a very few pre-Columbian manuscripts still extant.

In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.

A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.

The massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.

An extraordinary Mexican photographic campaign and two learned articles revive the poetics of Hungarian artist and designer Géza Maróti.

The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.

Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.

Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.

The deeper and less obvious meanings of the series “Primitive Humanity,” painted by Piero di Cosimo in the Florence of the Medici.

The elaborate forms of bread baked in Sardinia for the celebration of Easter and weddings offer an occasion to reflect on our daily food by definition.

The story of the women in the orbit of King Philip of Spain, and especially his second wife, Elisabeth Farnese.

A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of
Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).

The works of contemporary sculptor Javier Marín preserve the painful memory of the violent history that gave rise to modern Mexican civilisation.

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.