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A selection of excerpts from Italo Calvino's Lezioni americane retraces his creative process, based on visual images,
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 ephemeral collection of Franco Maria Ricci's op eds, whimsical butterflies landing on the pages of FMR, now brought together in one volume.
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 works of Indian photographer Dayanita Singh in homage to Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Orhan Pamuk, showing their unmistakable bond.
Author Dacia Maraini's conjectures before a painting of two little girls by Antonietta Raphaël.
Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.
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.
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.
Mr PA's third visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is all about Cézanne's Card Players.
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.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
Joris-Karl Huysmans' ekfrasis in the novel À rebours alongside two Salomès by Gustave Moreau, master of the Sublime.
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.”
An apocryphal version of the Flight into Egypt by French illustrator Luc-Olivier Merson, set in the Gizah Plateau.
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.
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.
