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Mr. PA, contemplating Goya’s portrait of Manuel Osorio at the Metropolitan Museum, meditates on the nature of art and his own life.

A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.

Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.

The most recent "apparitions" of previously unseen paintings by Rembrandt and their adventures on the art market.

Mr PA's third visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is all about Cézanne's Card Players.

Author Dacia Maraini's conjectures before a painting of two little girls by Antonietta Raphaël.

Often the hidden face of a painting, its back or its verso, tells more secrets than the face on display.

Half painting and half diorama, the great “cyclorama” of the Battle of Atlanta recounts a moment in American history as well as commemorating a long-lost figurative genre.

This time Mr PA dwells on the depiction of the Great Indian Fruit Bat found in the Indian bestiary known as the Impey Album

The peaceful but mysterious interiors painted by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi are explored in terms of their history, artistry, and poetry.

Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.

Forty years after André Chastel's renowned essay Musca Depicta, the Labirinto della Masone pays homage by bringing together painted flies from all over Europe.

Two works by Andrew Wyeth spark a poetic reflection on the sense of sight and on the sentimental and philosophical aspects of painting.

The records at auction of paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Fede Galizia, as told by Simone Facchinetti.

The recent success at auction of the works of Lavinia Fontana, a painter from Bologna who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries.

The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.

Venice's Palazzo Loredan is hosting an exhibit on Sanya Kantarovsky: the interplay between the architecture of the building and the artworks offers an opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of time.

You can find many things at London bus stops: umbrellas, watches, and so on. More rarely, masterpieces by Titian in plastic envelopes.

An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.

The myth of Diana, as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, painted by Bartholomeus Spranger, Titian and Van Dyck.

The author, a landscape gardener and botanical investigator of great artworks, shows us recondite vegetal details of renowned masterpieces.

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

It may seem easy, but not everyone can raise the bar: only the stars know how, in sports as on the art market.

For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.