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A selection of excerpts from Italo Calvino's Lezioni americane retraces his creative process, based on visual images,
The Masonic park of the Villa Durazzo Pallavicini in Pegli (near Genoa), conceived as a theatrical spectacle.
The world of Canadian painter Alexander Colville reconstructed through a selection of his paintings.
Stunningly refined portraits of botanists done by Gaetano Gandolfi for Bologna’s “Pinacotheca Bassiana”.
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.
Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.
The story of the women in the orbit of King Philip of Spain, and especially his second wife, Elisabeth Farnese.
At the edge of Barcelona nestles a collection of buildings by Xavier Corberó: a vision, perhaps a mirage that speaks to the illusive nature of art.
The tropical welter of vegetation painted in the cloister of the Mexican monastery of Malinalco bears witness to the encounter (and clash) of cultures.
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.
Franco Maria Ricci describes his last trip outside of Italy, in Portugal, dwelling on the Jerónimos Monastery.
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.
FMR celebrates the fragile beauty of glass with David Landau's "giardini di trasparenze" at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
The highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.
Sand sculptures abandoned to desert winds, carpets made of flowers, decorative clouds and other examples of ephemeral art.
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 starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.
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.
In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.
The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.
Recollections and travel notes from a journey through the lovely Christian religious centers of Oaxaca.
