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The prestigious sale of Pierre de Crombruggh's library; his lifelong devotion had been collecting printed works on culinary art.
A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
The voracious and well-informed career as an art collector of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of State under Louis XIII of France.
The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.
Narrowly art historical – but also philosophical and political – aspects of the life story of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo.
Mr PA, Orhan Pamuk's alter ego, visits the Metropolitan Museum in New York and lingers over Giovanni Paolo Panini's Ancient Rome.
Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.
The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
The record sale of Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries, at auction in Paris.
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.
The Palace of Italian Institutions in Tangier, built by a sultan who never lived there, is a veritable kaleidoscope of detailed decorations.
The intriguing and little known youthful works of the artist Élisabeth Chaplin, painted in the Florentine countryside.
The painter, architect, and set designer Andrei Beloborodov dreamed of a silent world of ancient ruins flooded by vast waters.
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.
A procession of the quick and the dead, guided by skeletons, in the churches of Beram (Croatia) and Hrastovlje (Slovenia).
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.
Pietro Portaluppi's collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.
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.
Screenwriter Don Campbell brings us his treatment for a tv series in development, Icarus, the story of humankind’s first lighter-than-air flights.
The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.
A new auction record for a drawing by Rembrandt has been established with the portrait of a lion, sold in recent months by Sotheby's New York.
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.
One of the most charming landscapes of the Italian summer, the beaches of Versilia, is recounted through the refined paintings of Moses Levy.
The dome painted by Correggio in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma at the heart of a new and original layout.
