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The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
A trip backward into Luigi Serafini's personal and artistic life, in search of what inspired the fantastical worlds of the Codex Seraphinianus.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
The Sonrientes, pre-Columbian statuettes from southern Mexico, conceal archaic mysteries under the seal of gaiety.
This time, in his feature on the shapes of art, Mariotti reflects on the spiral, which takes centre stage in a work by Léon Spilliaert.
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
The story of the women in the orbit of King Philip of Spain, and especially his second wife, Elisabeth Farnese.
The D&G show at Milan’s Palazzo Reale pays homage to femininity and Sicily, in an apotheosis of Italian style.
The collection of jewelry by René Lalique assembled by his friend and patron Calouste Gulbenkian.
Franco Maria Ricci describes his last trip outside of Italy, in Portugal, dwelling on the Jerónimos Monastery.
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.
Ettore Guatelli’s museum of rural culture at Ozzano Taro, in the province of Parma.
The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.
The English landscape garden at the Royal Palace of Caserta hides many more secrets than its cool shadows let on.
The idea of Total Work of Art, the dream of Wagner and Klimt, concentrated in a 16-page booklet illustrated by Viennese Carl Otto Czeschka.
A manuscript with an adventuresome background takes us to Eastern lands colonized by Europeans in the sixteenth century.
Learn all about Ferdinand Bac, an ecclectic dilettante artist who masterminded the extravagante villa of Les Colombières on the Côte d’Azure.
The massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.
Can a colour without a name exist? Perhaps not, but there is a colour on the scale that doesn't correspond to anything specific: indigo.
The highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.
Screenwriter Don Campbell brings us his treatment for a tv series in development, Icarus, the story of humankind’s first lighter-than-air flights.
Art Deco brought radical changes to New York, in every manifestation of architecture and design.
