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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.
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
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 dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
Winckelmann’s Roman life in a “spoken portrait” that brings to light both personal and secret aspects.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.
The painter, architect, and set designer Andrei Beloborodov dreamed of a silent world of ancient ruins flooded by vast waters.
A bust in polychrome marble at Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome) depicts the Congolese ambassador to the Holy See from the turn of the 1600s, António Manuel Ne Vunda.
The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.
After a lengthy and delicate restoration, Parmigianino's Vision of St Jerome is back on display at the National Gallery in London.
For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.
The Biblia pauperum of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo as described by Vittorio Sgarbi, in part through the inspired words of Giovanni Testori.
The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
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.
A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.
Nature harnessed into the Marmore Waterfalls, created in the years of the Republic of Rome, became a must-see on the Grand Tour.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
An unusual portrait of Dante, far from the traditional iconography of scowling exile, conceals a mysterious note bearing the name Degas.
The formative years of Paolo Caliari, better known as Paolo Veronese, as told in the words of the curator of the major exhibition at the Prado (2025).
Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
A trip backward into Luigi Serafini's personal and artistic life, in search of what inspired the fantastical worlds of the Codex Seraphinianus.
The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.
