No.6

Summer Solstice 2023

2023 / 126 PAGES. Language: English, Italian

This summertime issue of FMR braids cultural and artistic threads, in a conversation spanning time and geography. East meets West, Andean tapestries evoke Penelope at her loom, young British aristos ride south into Antiquity, a venturesome scholar explores Provence’s pre-Impressionist history, and Serafini, Emperor of Imagination, evokes worlds unimaginable. FMR weaves past with present and, as both Socrates of Athens and The Cranberries of Limerick might have put it, there’s no need to argue.

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Mr. PA Goes to the Museum” – My Suit Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

“Auctions” – Consider the Cookbook

by Massimo Navoni

“Ephemera” – Enigmatic and Unremembered

by Cristian Valenti

DOMUS SERAPHINIANA

by Giorgio Villani, Justin Taylor and Laurel Saint Pierre

photography by Massimo Listri

The Roman home of Luigi Serafini, the visionary author of the Codex Seraphinianus.

GRAN TURISM IN A COACH AND SIX

by Nick Foulkes and Fernando Mazzocca, Pietro Mercogliano

photography by Massimo Listri

The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”

DREAM WIEVER OF THE ANDES

by Giorgio Antei

photography by Diego Amaral Ceballos

In praise of the Andean Penelope, the Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, the golden spiderwoman of the Andes.

LANG SHIH-NING

by Giuseppe Maino

Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.

PROVENZA, THE SEA AND THE SOIL

by Gabriele Reina, Giovanni Mariotti

A journey through Provence, complete with a triptych by Nicolas Froment and legends concerning the Tarasque, il drago antropofago del Rodano.