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Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in whichw ords and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
Japanese folding screens from the Edo period upon which other foldings screens are painted, bedecked with magnificent garments.
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.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
The most intellectual of all parlor pastimes, the game of chess is described through the chessboards of a Portuguese collection.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
Even an educated eye can glaze over, wearied by all the beautiful things it has seen. H.A. Faciolince faces the portrait of Cornelis Van der Geest.
A learned and witty article describes the many self-portraits painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, often with self-promotional intent.
Ettore Guatelli’s museum of rural culture at Ozzano Taro, in the province of Parma.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
