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A great antiques dealer and connoisseur, Guy Ladrière, exhibits his collection of glyptics from all eras in Paris.
Discovering Luigi Koelliker’s eclectic and immense contemporary Wunderkammer, which is just as amazing as those of the Baroque era.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
The life and works of Ugo Celada da Virgilio, a promising 20th-century Italian artist who worked in the shadows for most of his long life.
The secret of a collector and true art connoisseur is knowing how to find a bargain: masterpieces untouched by the market inflation and still available for a reasonable price.
For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.
The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.
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.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
Ettore Guatelli’s museum of rural culture at Ozzano Taro, in the province of Parma.
We're presenting two Medieval decks of playing cards with a hunting motif in their entirety, a highly refined portrayal and record of court life at the time.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
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.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
The botanical festoons frescoed by Giovanni da Udine in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, which include species then newly brought over from the New World.
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.
Contemporary artist Marco Barina’s assemblages are attributed, in a piece of fiction, to imaginary pre-human populations.
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.
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 highly refined works of the great interpreter of French and American Art Deco, the Russian Romain de Tirtoff, known as Erté.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
