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The massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.

Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.

Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.

The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.

The doorknockers of the Cesati collection, on show at the Masone Labyrinth, are the occasion for anthropological reflections.

Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.

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

Hyperrealistic cacti, painted in oils and garish hues on gigantic canvases by the South Korean artist Lee Kwang-Ho.

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

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 most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.

Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.

The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.

Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.

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.

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

The procession of the Queen of Sheba as illustrated by Josep Maria Sert in a hall of the Wendel family’s Hôtel Particulier, now at the Musée Carnavalet.

The glittering jewelry collection of the Royal House of Braganza, preserved at Lisbon’s Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.

The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.