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Stunningly refined portraits of botanists done by Gaetano Gandolfi for Bologna’s “Pinacotheca Bassiana”.
The D&G show at Milan’s Palazzo Reale pays homage to femininity and Sicily, in an apotheosis of Italian style.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
Poet Rosita Copioli’s flash of inspiration about the basrelief of Mercury in Rimini’s Malatesta Temple.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
The ceiling of the Sala dei Baroni in the Palazzo Chiaromonte “Steri” in Palermo, with its repertoire of stories, is a masterpiece of figurative medieval art.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
The splendor of the Padiglione delle Feste at the Grand Hotel of the Thermal Spa of Castrocaro, decorated by Tito Chini.
The doorknockers of the Cesati collection, on show at the Masone Labyrinth, are the occasion for anthropological reflections.
Anselm Kiefer’s site-specific exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milano explores and celebrates prophetic female figures from the past.
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
The Sonrientes, pre-Columbian statuettes from southern Mexico, conceal archaic mysteries under the seal of gaiety.
One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
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.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
