Hair air style from Middle Age to Botticelliby Silvia TomasiHair colour had a moral significance, the hairstyle a message of seduction or betrayal. And each hair became a story
Sandro Botticelli: portraiture as a lost paradiseby Antonio CarnevaleBotticelli's portraits bring us to the golden age of his life, preluding his dramatic fall into debts and oblivion.
At the show with the artist: Jutta Koether lights up Rosso Fiorentino, Piero di Cosimo and Botticelli
Giovanni Comin’s Putto with a Skull and a Bookby Maichol ClementeAn analysis of a 17th century Venetian Baroque sculpture by Giovanni Comin, which meditates on death and defeats the call to worldly goods
Is it really the time to buy old masters?by Stefano PirovanoThe wisdom of collecting old masters today, explained in four compelling arguments (that we didn't already know)
The artistic fate of the windby Silvia TomasiOver the centuries, the wind has always been an iconographic presence for artists, touching upon fate, religion, chaos, love, and nature
Ancient books, an introductionby Antonio CarnevaleNiche within a niche, ancient books from the Renaissance are very much alive today, torn between objects of fetish and crossroads of stories.
Giovanni Morelli, the dark connoisseurby Antonio CarnevaleArt critic and politician Giovanni Morelli played a key role in the history of art. Here is an honest portrait of him shading some light on his dark side.
Isabella d’Este, an exclusive interviewby Stefano PirovanoAs all great art collectors in the Renaissance, also Isabella d'Este was mainly buying contemporary art, but with a deep interest in the old Greek and Roman masters.