No. 13

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Ephemera” – Luigi Serafini: Madcappery and Genius
by Pietro Mercogliano

“Auctions” – Sweertsmania
by Simone Facchinetti

MODERN BAROQUE
by Giorgio Villani
with a reading by Gustave Flaubert
photography by Massimo Listri
The procession of the Queen of Sheba as illustrated by Josep Maria Sert in a hall of the Wendel family’s Hôtel Particulier, now at the Musée Carnavalet.

CRYSTALS, CASTLES, SEAS, AND STARS
by Ezio Godoli
The life and works of painter and engraver Wenzel Hablik, the visionary Bohemian artist, a very original protagonist of the work of the Vienna Secession.

WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER
by Eduardo Barba Gómez
The botanical details of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio, the Portrait of a Knight now in Madrid, have many secrets to divulge.

PORTRAIT OF BOTERO AS A YOUNG MAN
by Giorgio Antei
Based on eyewitness accounts, less than a year after the artist’s death, we reconstruct the style that made Fernando Botero renowned.

HIS TERRIBLE SWIFT BRUSH
by Amy Durrell
with a reading from The Detroit Free Press del 27 febbraio 1887
photography by Massimo Listri
Half painting and half diorama, the great “cyclorama” of the Battle of Atlanta recounts a moment in American history as well as commemorating a long-lost figurative genre.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
by Caterina Napoleone
photography by Massimo Listri
The dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano, decorated by Giuseppe Barberi.