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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.

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

Personal thoughts and profound memories reawakened by an object as simple and unassuming as a coin bank.

Nature harnessed into the Marmore Waterfalls, created in the years of the Republic of Rome, became a must-see on the Grand Tour.

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

The Neo-Andean Baroque buildings by the Bolivian acrhitect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, above La Paz.

A manuscript with an adventuresome background takes us to Eastern lands colonized by Europeans in the sixteenth century.

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