No.4

Winter Solstice 2022

FMR

2022 / 124 PAGES. Language: English, Italian

Issue Four of FMR arrives with the winter solstice and has a cascade of light flaming on the cover: it opens with a piece by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, which brings Dayanita Singh’s photograph to the pages of FMR, then continues with the cycle by Vittorio Zecchin The Thousand and One Nights, from the early twentieth century like The Nibelungs.

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Emotions” – The Light and Texture of Memory

by Orhan Pamuk

“Auctions” – A Czarina’s Parting Gift

by Massimo Navoni

“Bibliophilia” – A Total Artwork Writ Small

by Stefano Salis

THE CUPID SELLER

by Benedetta Craveri

reading from Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Benedetta Craveri offers an elegant narrative of a love affair in pre-Revolutionary, spun out in various works of art.

SOMBER AND SOLEMN

by António Filipe Pimentel

reading from Théophile Gautier

photography by Giovanni Ricci-Novara

António Filipe Pimentel describes the history of the cenotaphs erected at the Escorial in the sixteenth century.

THE MANILA MANUSCRIPT

by Giorgio Antei

A manuscript with an adventuresome background takes us to Eastern lands colonized by Europeans in the sixteenth century.

PORTRAIT OF A RACEHORSE

by Andrew Graham-Dixon

reading from H.D. Lawrence

Andrew Graham-Dixon pens a perceptive portrait of George Stubbs, the horse portraitist of eighteenth-century England.

SPARKS, RIPPLES, AND MOLTEN GLASS

by Giorgio Villani

The artistic cycle of Vittorio Zecchin’s Thousand and One Nights, from the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by exoticism and fable.