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The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.
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 painter, architect, and set designer Andrei Beloborodov dreamed of a silent world of ancient ruins flooded by vast waters.
Exploring buxus, a wood substitute for veneers and inlays that became widely popular in autarkic Italy under the regime.
Poetic insight infuses this souvenir of Giorgio Armani woven by Giovanni Mariotti a month after the great designer’s passing.
The Etruscan studio in the royal Savoy palace of Racconigi, a noteworthy instance of a pseudo-antiquarian capriccio.
The wooden St Rocco from the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, much admired by Giorgio Vasari, was almost taken to Germany during World War II.
An exhibit retracing the most meaningful moments in Franco Maria Ricci's publishing history, marked by the constant presence of the colour black.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.
The Biblia pauperum of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo as described by Vittorio Sgarbi, in part through the inspired words of Giovanni Testori.
In Renaissance Florence it was customary to bring refreshments to new mothers on artistically decorated trays.
The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.
The "Briganti del Lazio" and their ciociare (peasants from the Ciociaria region) companions depicted by French painter Louis-Léopold Robert.
The adventures (especially the romantic escapades) of Byron in Ravenna, illustrated with paintings inspired by the poet’s creations in those same years.
This time, in his feature on the shapes of art, Mariotti reflects on the spiral, which takes centre stage in a work by Léon Spilliaert.
The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.
A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.
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 journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.
Nature harnessed into the Marmore Waterfalls, created in the years of the Republic of Rome, became a must-see on the Grand Tour.
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.
"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.
Sand sculptures abandoned to desert winds, carpets made of flowers, decorative clouds and other examples of ephemeral art.
