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The wooden St Rocco from the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, much admired by Giorgio Vasari, was almost taken to Germany during World War II.
The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
In Renaissance Florence it was customary to bring refreshments to new mothers on artistically decorated trays.
The work of painter Emanuele Cavalli, steeped in complex and nebulous esotericism, tells us much about the School of Rome and all that ensued in its wake.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.
The countless reflections of a portrait by Ingres which, according to a compelling conjecture, inspired painters from different generations.
A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
"Fabric Sculptures", or Roberto Capucci's clothing. Adapting fabrics, forcing them into the structure of an item of clothing was his life's work.
The painter, architect, and set designer Andrei Beloborodov dreamed of a silent world of ancient ruins flooded by vast waters.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.
The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.
The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
For the first time, the Accademia Carrara is set to reunite the Visconti-Sforza “Colleoni” tarot deck with other artistic tarot cards from every century.
For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.
After abdicating the throne, Queen Christina of Sweden moved to Rome, where she devoted herself fully to her great vocation as patron of the arts and collector.
The deeper and less obvious meanings of the series “Primitive Humanity,” painted by Piero di Cosimo in the Florence of the Medici.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
A new auction record for a drawing by Rembrandt has been established with the portrait of a lion, sold in recent months by Sotheby's New York.
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.
