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The “Geroglifici capricciosi et opere bellissime di Francesco Pianta” at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
The tropical welter of vegetation painted in the cloister of the Mexican monastery of Malinalco bears witness to the encounter (and clash) of cultures.
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.
The world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.
In his landscape paintings, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjæstad’s interpretation of Scandinavian nature proves at once realistic and imbued with late-Romantic poetry.
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.
Ettore Guatelli’s museum of rural culture at Ozzano Taro, in the province of Parma.
Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
Screenwriter Don Campbell brings us his treatment for a tv series in development, Icarus, the story of humankind’s first lighter-than-air flights.
The Masonic park of the Villa Durazzo Pallavicini in Pegli (near Genoa), conceived as a theatrical spectacle.
The astounding results recorded in three different marvels: a painting by Canaletto, a mirror by Claude Lalanne and a book by Galileo Galilei.
Often the hidden face of a painting, its back or its verso, tells more secrets than the face on display.
The life and works of painter and engraver Wenzel Hablik, the visionary Bohemian artist, a very original protagonist of the work of the Vienna Secession.
Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.
Hyperrealistic cacti, painted in oils and garish hues on gigantic canvases by the South Korean artist Lee Kwang-Ho.
The countless reflections of a portrait by Ingres which, according to a compelling conjecture, inspired painters from different generations.
Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.
