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FMR Mar 1982 # 1

p 40: I sacri Astucci; in seguendo, nell'ombra delle cripte, il baluginare dei 'containers' di Reliquie, FMR riscopre il fulgente Tesoro dell'arte orafa mediovale. authors: Giovanni Mariotti, Bella Bassard
p 60: Orbis Pictus Seraphinianus; il Codex Seraphinianus, vasta enciclopedia illustrata di un mondo immaginario. author: Italo Calvino
p 72: Jacopo Ligozzi nel Gran Serraglio. author: Anna Forlani; photographs: Valerio Signorini
p 84: Gran Descrizio del Serraglio. author: Tommaso Alberti (1616)
p 104: Art-Goût-Beauté; questo il titolo di una rivista pubblicata a Parigi dal 1920 sino al 1932. authors: Grazietta Butazzi, Rossana Bossaglia
p 118: Villeggiature Medicee; le ville, i giocchi, le cacci di Fernando Granduca di Toscana. author: Daniele Mignani; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Apr 1982 # 2

p 25: Soavissimo Iran; dal 1797 al 1834 regnò sulla Persia il secondo sovrano della dinastia qajar Fath Ali Scià. author: Bianca Maria Alfieri
p 47: Rimembranze Liberty; il Cimitero Monumentalo di Milano, un museo all'aperto delle sculture lombarde fra Otto e Novecento. author: Rossanna Bossaglia; photographs: Ricardo Lazzeri, Antonio Martinelli
p 73: L'Illusione Farnese; il Teatro Farnese. author: Marzio Dall'Acqua; photographs: Ricardo Lazzeri, Antonio Martinelli
p 80: Il Codice Fiorentino; Nota storica. author: Pietro Corsi
p 99: Gli occhi esorbitati; occhiali. author: Yves Hersant; photographs: Tim Street-Porter

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FMR May 1982 # 3

p 33: Gli Altarini del Poeta - il primo Museo della Paccottiglia di Gabriele d'Annunzio; Vittoriale + Nota Storica (Umberto Da Christina). author: Alberto Arbasino; photographs: Christopher Broadbent
p 63: Neo Ruderi. author: Giulio Gonfalonieri; photographs: Giulio Gonfalonieri
p 79: I Letti Insonni di Domenico Gnoli. authors: Vittorio Sgarbi, Giovanni Mariotti
p 99: Arte per Acqua - Acquamanile; per detergere mani sacre e profane, il Medioevo creò gli acquamanile. authors: Peter Bloch, introduzione Giorgio Maganelli

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FMR Jun 1982 # 4

p 31: Alhambra Anastatica - il Castello Sammezano; Ferdinando Panciatiche Ximenes d'Aragona, un gentiluomo toscano dell'Ottocento - non plus ultra. author: Maria Cristina Tonelli; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 61: Nueva España - Sapore Sapere; il Codice Fiorentino, il documento più importante del Messico azteco. author: Italo Calvino
p 87: Ebdomero a Parigi - Giorgio de Chirico. author: Paolo Baldacci
p 105: Fiori di Kemp; Lindsay Kemp. authors: David Haughton, Vittorio Sgarbi; photographs: Roberto Granata

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FMR Jul 1982 # 5

p 35: Barocco; il baldacchino di San Pietro. author: Paolo Portoghesi; photographs: Folco Quilici
p 47: Re d'Arazzi - Gobelins. author: Daniel Meyer
p 81: La pioggia d'oro; Slot-Machines. author: Yves Hersant
p 99: Segna di Siena - Palio. author: Alessandro Falassi; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Sep 1982 # 6

p 37: Lo Spettacolo Intarsiato; 19 intarsi eseguiti dal senese Antonio Barili tra il 1483 e il 1502 per la Capella di San Giovanni nel Duomo di Siena. author: Frederico Zeri; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 53: Egon Schiele il Verde; Diario del carcere. author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 73: Spaventapasseri. authors: Danilo Mainardi, Mario Ghiretti; photographs: Mario Ghiretti
p 97: Prode Argentino. authors: Bonifacio del Carri;, Samuel Johnson; photographs: Migonr Izquierdo

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FMR Oct 1982 # 7

p 30: Restauro - il protiro del duomo di Ferrara; Nicholaus a Ferrara. [Restorations] author: Vittorio Sgarbi
p 45: Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605). author: Giuseppe Olmi; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 75: I Teatri della Vanità - Gaetano Giulio Zumbo (1656-1701) scultore. authors: François Cagnetta, Mario Praz; photographs: Liberto Perugi
p 99: L'Armida di Savinio - regista 1952 - opera di Gioachino Rossini; Alberto Savinio (Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico), fratello di Giorgio de Chirico. author: Cristina Nuzzi; photographs: Valerio Signorini

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FMR Nov 1982 # 8

p 29: L'Infinito Ornamento - Koloman Moser, pittore, designer e architetto. author: Giovanni Fanelli
p 71: Amercan Dream - Ford - Chrysler, GMC, Lincoln, Oakland, Duesenberg. author: E.B. White; photographs: Baron Wolman, Lucinda Lewis
p 95: L'Imperatore Inesistente - Jean-Baptiste Pérès. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Gloria Lunel

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FMR Dec 1982 # 9

p 31: Zillis, vicino a Coira in Svizzera; un soffito-mappa di 153 panelli del XII secolo. authors: Ernst Murbach, Giovanni Mariotti; photographs: Peter Heman
p 53: Le Sante Marie del Fiore - la facciata del Duomo di Firenze. author: Carlo Cresti; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 77: Napoli di Galilea; il Natale. author: Rafaello Causa; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 103: De Divina Proportione. author: Vittorio Sgarbi; photographs: Loredana Bonseri

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FMR Jan 1983 # 10

p 37: Mille e una bestia - il Libro degli Animali di al-Gahiz (Aboy Othman Amru al Kinani al Dschahif) - XIV secolo. author: Erminio Caprotti
p 63: Golf e cuori straziati. author: P.G. Wodehouse
p 85: L'Altare della Pace - in onore dell'inaugorazione di Ottaviano Augusto il 30 gennaio del 9 a.C. author: Salvatore Settis; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 111: Re di Fiori. author: Yves Laissus

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FMR Aug 1984 # 3

p 44: The treasure of Saint Mark's in Venice. authors: Sgarbi, Carrieri
p 67: Blake in Heaven and Hell; about Dante's Divina Comedia; drawings by Blake. authors: Borges, Schiff
p 95: Hollywood on eyes; eyeglasses. authors: Perec, Hersant
p 115: Lacework from the Wiener Werkstätte. author: Horn
p 131: Eastern light; 19th century Oriental paintings by John Frederick Lewis. authors: Llewellyn, de Nerval, Fromentin

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FMR Jun 1985 # 12

p 45: Portraits in extremis; painting by Francis Bacon. author: Keates
p 61: Ulisse Aldrovandi; animal paintings by a renaissance naturalist. authors: Cohen, Olmi
p 98: A painter restored; paintings by Antonio da Crevaleore, 15th century. author: Sgarbi
p 125: The realms of gold; ancient American goldworking, masks. author: Wardwell

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FMR Jul 1985 # 13

p 37: United feathers of America; drawings of American birds by John James Audubon, 19th century. author: Peck
p 61: The kingdom of Qajar; Persian portraiture of the 19th century.
p 85: To a T; the model T Ford automobile. author: White
p 101: A Venetian address; the Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice. author: Chiappini di Sorio
p 125: Low in Tailand; the James Low album of Thai paintings. author: Ginsburg

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FMR Sep 1985 # 14

p 49: Cellini, large as life; the real Cellini. author: Pope-Hennessy
p 69: The blue Fronteira; the palace of the marquis of Fronteira in Portugal. authors: Sarmento de Matos, Crichton
p 93: Eternal Etruscans; the origin of Etruria; Etruscan places. authors: Bonfante, Lawrence
p 125: Florence lost; silence and the city; paintings by Fabio Borbottoni. author: Calvino

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FMR Oct 1985 # 15

p 45: The artist and the master; paintings by Charles Gleyre, the master of Renoir. author: Hauptman
p 67: Topkapi; the sultanate of women. author: Peirce
p 101: Thy name is woman; the bronze mirrors of the Etruscans. author: Thomson de Grummond
p 117: The Buddha is born; legends of the Buddha. authors: Borges, Jurado

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FMR Nov 1985 # 16

p 41: Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, 20th century German painter. author: Di Milia
p 55: Isadora in ivory; the art deco statuettes of Demeter Chiparus. author: Di Cristina
p 77: Il faut cultiver notre jardin; the garden of Versailles. authors: Saint-Simon, Laurent
p 101: Horn of plenty; Rubens in the collection of the Princes of Lichtenstein. author: Almansi
p 125: Ticket to dreamland; Wurtlizer juke boxes. author: Lowry

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FMR Feb 1986 # 18

p 61: Shining Genji; the tale of the Genji scrolls of Japan. author: Butor
p 77: Tamara de Lempicka, a 20th century painter. author: Marmori
p 101: Banking on Easy Street; automated gambling machines. author: Hersant
p 121: Love on the Links; graphic art on golf. authors: Wodehouse, Weill
p 145: The society of Reynolds; Joshua Reynolds, an 18th century painter. author: Penny

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FMR Apr 1986 # 19

p 39: Bon voyage; of trains and stations. authors: Brombert, Pasolini
p 61: A fly in the pigment; Iconology of the fly in paintings. authors: Chastel, Manganelli
p 85: De Chirico city; paintings from Giorgio de Chirico. authors: Calvino, Baldacci
p 109: Giovanni Darion comes home; the 15th century Palazzo Dario of Venice. author: Sgarbi
p 137: A flawed master; sculptures and bronzes of Alfred Gilbert, an early 20th century artist. author: Dorment

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FMR Jun 1986 # 20

p 37: A fan for Alma Mahler; painted by Kokoschka. author: Spielmann
p 57: Pure Kashmir; the shawl industry in Kashmir. author: Irwin
p 89: Lady Liberty; the statue of Liberty in New York. authors: Warner, Provoyeur
p 108: Lady Liberty; Colossal sculpture. authors: Bartholdi, Provoyeur
p 127: A measure of heaven and earth; astronomical instruments and Petrus Apianus, a 16th century astronomer. authors: Guadalupi, Manganelli

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FMR Aug 1986 # 21

p 39: Masters of fire and glass; jewelry designs by Lalique. authors: Lalique, Perdigão
p 63: Donatello and the quattrocento. authors: Pope-Hennessy, Vasari
p 97: The king's citadels, three-dimensional models of cities and fortresses. author: Monsaingeon
p 115: The house of Thonet. authors: Loos, Portoghesi

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FMR Oct 1986 # 22

p 39: The court at play; designs for court ballet at the court of Louis XIII. author: McGowan
p 49: Goya and Don Luis; a painting of Don Luis de Bobón. author: Sgarbi
p 72: Goya at the court of Charles IV. author: White
p 81: Tempus ex machina; the life of Breguet, 18th century watchmaker. authors: Ernouf, Kuprin
p 97: Chapel of the princes; the Cappella dei Principi in San Lorenze, Florence. authors: Chastel, Praz
p 121: The infinite ornament; ornamental motifs by painter and designer Koloman Moser, 19th century Vienna. authors: Hersant, Fanelli
p 137: Il corso del Coltello (the course of the knife). authors: Oldenburg, van Bruggen, Gehry

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FMR Dec 1986 # 17

p 41: Royal raiment; costumes of Royal India. author: Jamail
p 71: A cast of shadows; puppet shadow theatre in India. author: Marchianò
p 91: The thousand petals of bliss; the Yoga force. author: Losty
p 105: Mogul synthesizer; Akbar the Great, a 17th century mogul. author: Stierlin
p 137: Indian odyssey; the grand moguls. authors: Guadalupi, Cendrars

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FMR Dec 1986 # 23

p 25: Coup de Carracci; the age of Corregio and Carracci: Emilian painting in the 16th and 17th centuries. author: Freedberg
p 51: A watering place; the pavilion of the baths of Berzieri, 20th century. authors: Bossaglia, de Montaigne
p 81: Painted pomp; 19th century academic painting. author: Boime
p 103: The feast of the lights; the Hanukkah lamp. authors: Narkiss, Aleichem

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FMR Feb 1987 # 24

p 25: A rose is a nose is a rose; the paintings of Arcimboldo, 16th century. authors: Barthes, Carter, Brodbeck, Baltrusaïtis
p 63: Bugatti Royale; automobiles by Ettore Bugatti. authors: Giugiaro, Kestler, Bugatti
p 89: Villa of mysteries; the villas in Pompeii. authors: Maiuri, Outram

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FMR Mar 1987 # 25

p 25: Mantuan caprice; Palazzo Te at Mantua - designed and decorated by Giulio Romano. authors: Gombrich, Guadalupi; photographs: Massimo Listri, Roberto Ponzani
p 65: Caravan to Palmyra; Zenobia - Queen of the Sands. authors: Stierlin, Rostovtzeff; photographs: Henri Stierlin, Anna Buchet, Massimo Listri
p 103: Where the lemon trees bloom; inlaid furniture from 19th century Sorrento. authors: Gargiulo, Douglas

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FMR May 1987 # 26

p 15: Pilgrimage to Borobodur. authors: Sarduy, Wahl, Zimmer
p 43: Lunch with Mr. Cole; the South Kensington Museum refreshment rooms. authors: Physick, Morley
p 75: The city in perspective; perspective views of cities (paintings and inlaid wood) in 16th century Italy. authors: Chastel, de Seta
p 99: Real to reel; the Hollywood connection; Almansi.

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FMR Jul 1987 # 27

p 15: Shades of Hellbrunn; the palace and gardens of Hellbrunn; Schaber, Fertonani.
p 37: A brush with society; paintings by Giovanni Boldini in 19th century Paris. authors: Mauriès, de Pisis
p 61: The sun also rises; the tomb of Thutmosis III in the valley of the kings. authors: Fornari, Tosi
p 85: Bibliophilia; treasures of a book collector. author: Breslauer
p 105: Made in Renaissance; in praise of ceramics. author: Chastel

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FMR Sep 1987 # 28

p 15: Glass of the Ceasars; Roman glass; Mazzolani, Harden.
p 61: Painter of the soul; Louis Janmot's poème de l'ame, 19th century. author: Bourget
p 91: Something rich and strange; Bavarian reliquaries covered with gems and embroidered robes. authors: Quattrocchi, Harvolk
p 99: Treasure island; the church with Carolingian and Byzantine mosaics and marble reliefs of Torcello near Venice. authors: Ruskin, Romanelli
p 105: Rickshaw kitsch; Oriental kitsch in Dacca. author: Beaune

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FMR Nov 1987 # 29

p 15: Ladies of the court; paintings of the school of Fontainebleau, 16th century. authors: Delay, Mauriès
p 37: The face of Yemen; faces of women and facades of houses. authors: Alliata, Rihani
p 59: Mr. Tiffany's lamps. authors: Quattrocchi, McKean
p 89: Those obscure objects of design; Piero Fornasetti, the capricious master of metaphysical decoration, 20th century. authors: Saatchi, Ponti
p 105: Flagrant, fragrant, Fragonard. authors: Rosenberg, de Goncourt

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FMR Jan 1988 # 30

p 15: Zurbarán in ecstasy; a 17th century Spanish painter. authors: Baticle, Somerset Maugham
p 47: Northerners in Naples; the Napolitan frescoes of Hans von Marées. author: Marandel
p 64: Northerners in Naples; Anton Dohrn and the Stazione Zoologica. author: De Masi
p 65: A passion for panthers; Cartier's cats. authors: Gautier, Nadelhoffer
p 81: Sabbioneta; Vespasiano Gonzaga and his city. authors: Bellonci, Forster

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FMR Mar 1988 # 31

p 15: Minotaure; the journal Minotaure between 1933 and 1939. author: Schwarz
p 35: Opera by the sea; the theatro San Carlo in Naples. authors: de Seta, Haskell, Sharp
p 63: The wandering codex; the miscellenea Rothschild, a 15th century manuscript. author: Ottolenghi
p 83: Eve, the serpent and the death; the female nudes of Hans Baldung Grien. authors: Talbot, Warner

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FMR May 1988 # 32

p 15: An enigmatic education; a treatise on the four cardinal virtues - Prudence, Fortitude, Temperance and Justice in middle ages until 16th century. authors: Lecoq, Lang, Colanna
p 43: Mithra lives; the cult of the Persian god Mithra. authors: Musso, Zolla
p 71: A thing of beauty is a joy forever; the 19th century designer William Morris. author: Parry
p 105: La grande illusion; the magic latern projector. authors: Brunetta, Keates

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FMR Jul 1988 # 33

p 15: Catherine's collection; great Russian acquisitions by Catherine the Great. authors: Haskell, Magnus Enzenberger
p 43: Mascot mystique; Daimons as hood ornaments on cars. authors: Manganelli, di Sirignano, Sulzberger
p 75: Room with a view; the 18th century Welsh painter Thomas Jones in Naples. author: Wollheim
p 91: The mosque and the cathedral; the great Alhambra mosque. authors: Irving, Moneo, Sitwell

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FMR Sep 1988 # 34

p 15: Imperial Ravenna; the basilica of San Vitale. authors: Iannucci, Rosso
p 47: The fatal glance; the magic of Medusa. authors: Schmied, Warner
p 71: Our lady of the Chimeras; the gargoyles of Notre-Dame. author: Resnik
p 89: Banished to Bussy; the château de Bussy-Rabutin. authors: Lorgues-Lapouge, de Rabutin
p 111: Golf mania. author: Haultin

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FMR Nov 1988 # 35

p 17: Stone stories; the figured stones of Gotland. authors: Nylén, Lamm
p 33: The gospel according to Dalecarlia; 19th century Swedish paintings. author: Bjurström
p 49: The image in glass; engraved glass, early 20th century. author: Dahlbäck Lutteman
p 69: Döderhultarn; caricatures in wood by 19th century Swedish Axel Peterson. author: Pica
p 81: Auto biography; adventures in a Scania automobile and the history of Saab-Scania. author: Dell'Orso

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FMR Jan 1989 # 36

p 1: Let us build a tower; paintings of the tower of Babel. authors: Manganelli, Borges
p 25: French red and lapis lazuli; the altars made by the Corbarelli family in the 17th century. author: Massa
p 49: England, Rome and beauty; the italian collection of plaster casts and marble fragments of John Soane. author: Thornton
p 65: The modern magus; painter, musician and writer Alberto Savinio, 20th century. author: Sciascia
p 81: Wendingen, Techniek en Kunst; a Dutch magazine under direction of Theodorus Wijdeveld, early 20th century. authors: Fanelli, Godoli

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FMR Mar 1989 # 37

p 1: Sassetta of Siena. authors: Strehlke, Pope-Hennessy, Berenson
p 25: The perfect gallery; the art collection of italian paintings of Phélypeaux de La Vrillière, 18th century. author: Cotté
p 66: Brocade temples; ceremonial hairdresses in Malaysia. author: Alliata
p 81: Theaters of vanity; the 17th century wax sculptor Gaetano Zumbo. authors: Cagnetta, Praz
p 97: Pasta, gift of the gods. author: Istituto Nazionale per il Commercio Estero Roma

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FMR May 1989 # 38

p 1: The Nazarenes in Rome; the revival of the fresco in 19th century Rome. authors: Büttner, Susinno
p 33: Minted by Bulgari; authentic Greek and Roman coins in ultramodern settings. authors: Dallaro, Pliny the Elder
p 49: Byzantium is born; the reliefs in the Istanbul hippodrome. authors: Grant, Wortley Montagu
p 65: The count of couture; fashion illustration by count Zavaglia-Ricciardelli delle Caminate, alias René Gruau. author: Mauriès
p 81: Dancing with Shive. author: Michaël

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FMR Jul 1989 # 39

p 1: Signs of the time; symbolism of the French revolution. author: Gombrich
p 25: Pyramids on paper; the ephemeral pyramids of the French revolution. author: Mouilleseaux
p 51: Adolescent heroes; the death of Bara. authors: van de Sandt, Vovelle
p 65: Aux armes, citoyens; emblem sabres of the French revolution. author: Sabatier
p 81: Fashion 'à la patriote'; fashion and revolution. author: Griffo

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FMR Sep 1989 # 40

p 1: The knight's tale; the siege of Malta in 16th century. author: Guadalupi
p 25: Where emperors walked; the great palace in Constantinople. authors: Franceschini, Continuatus
p 49: The loves of Jupiter; with Corregio's masterpiece. authors: Almansi, Gould
p 65: Forever Florian's; the 'Caffè Florian' in Venice. author: Romanelli
p 81: The gothic Wildt; the sculptures of Adolfo Wildt. author: Mola

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FMR Nov 1989 # 41

p 1: An Epicurean villa; the villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum; Hellenic art. authors: Conticello, Norway
p 25: Landscape by Lajoüe; a rococo painter: Jacques de Lajoüe. authors: Michel, Blondel
p 49: A breath of Venice; Venetian glass, 20th century. author: Mauriës
p 65: Ivory towers; ivory objects in the palazzo Pitti. authors: Piacenta, Schiller
p 97: Libertadores; portraits of great men of Latin America history, Paz, Brading.
p 113: The writing in the sky; a 13th century codex with the signs of the Zodiac. authors: Zolla, Gousset

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FMR Feb 1990 # 42

p 1: Mourning's brilliance: Pontormo's deposition in the Santa Felice, Florence. author: Lebensztejn
p 33: Marble geometry; Roman inlaid work of marble. authors: Guidobaldi, Rosso
p 57: Desert gold; the gold of Serapis in Egypt. author: Reddé
p 81: Architecture in miniature; scale models of 18th century Sicilian palaces built by Vanvitelli. author: de Seta
p 97: Balearic islands; maps and legends. author: Mérot
p 113: Dispensers of power; reliquaries. authors: Mariotti, Bessard

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FMR Apr 1990 # 43

p 17: the board of clothmaker's guild painted by Rembrandt. [Impressions] author: Chastel
p 21: Neon high noon; Viva Las Vegas. author: Cabrera Infante
p 41: The spirit of the place; urban paintings by the Prague artist Adolf Kohn, 20th century. authors: Parik, Trollope
p 65: Royal dreams; tombs of the kings of France in the abbey of Saint-Denis, Paris. authors: Erlande-Brandenburg, Mazé
p 97: Tapestries of time; a 16th century calendar of tapestries, designed by Bramantino in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. authors: Grazzini, Bandello
p 129: Landscapes of light; gouaches of Jean-Pierre-Laurent Houël, made of Sicily in the 18th century. author: Pinault

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FMR Jun 1990 # 44

p 17: the painting of the Crown of Thorns by Titian. [Impressions] author: Sgarbi
p 25: Antelami; the Portal of the Months at the Parma Baptistery and other sculptures by Benedetto Antelami. author: Quintavalle
p 57: The Brancacci chapel; the restored frescoes by Masolino and Massaccio in Firenze. authors: Baldini, Vasari, Casazza
p 89: See Naples; views of Naples by various 16th and 17th century painters. author: de Seta
p 113: Lithuanian lore; wooden saints along the roads in Lithuania. author: Martinaitis
p 129: Enter Vever; the jewellery of Vever, 19th century. authors: Gaillemin, Lorrain

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FMR Aug 1990 # 45

p 17: a painting of the Etna eruption by Lo Giudice. [Impressions] author: Consolo
p 21: The Saviour in Chora; the Byzantine mosaics and frescoes in the church of the Saviour in Chora. authors: Marini-Clarelli, Metochites
p 53: Sacro Monte; 17th century theatrically staged biblical sculptures in Lombardy and Piedmont. authors: Guadalupi, Chesterton
p 77: Virtue retrieved; the Allegory of Virtue by the painter Corregio. author: Gould
p 85: Melancholy boy; frescoes by Parmigianino and Corregio in Parma. authors: Fornari, Schianchi
p 109: Serebriakoff; the paintings of interiors, 20th century. authors: Mauriès, Beaton
p 129: Tipu Sultan; the 18th century native ruler of India. author: Agha

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FMR Oct 1990 # 46

p 15: the Roman palace of Flavius on the Palatine. [Impressions] author: Bocca
p 21: Sulphuric mannerism; the 16th century painter Domenico Beccafumi. authors: Sgarbi, Hauser
p 45: Portugese expeditions; the age of atlantic discoveries. author: Amfitheatrof
p 71: Questions of characters; the printing art and typesets of Giambattista Bodoni. authors: Mingardi, Ciavarella
p 99: Knights' dreams; inlaid marble pavements in the St. John's cathedral, Malta. authors: Guadalupi, de Contreras
p 127: Magic lantern; images of 18th century passers-by by Giuseppe Crespi in Bologna. author: Riccomini

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FMR Dec 1990 # 47

p 17: Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Breughel the Elder. [Impressions] author: Rosso
p 21: Sansevero; art and sculptures in the 18th century Sansevero Chapel in Naples. author: Picone
p 53: Cautionary tales; 15th century painted wooden chests by Francesco di Giorgio. author: Warner
p 85: Tanjore painting. author: Michaël
p 107: Young Russians; child portraiture in 18th and 19th century Russian painting. authors: Goldovski, Benois
p 131: Christmas in Cracow; miniature theatres in Poland. authors: Lowicz, Sienkiewicz

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FMR Feb 1991 # 48

p 17: the Portinari triptych by Hugo van der Goes in Florence. [Impressions] author: Butor
p 29: Moldavian frescoes; from the 16th century. authors: Theodorescu, Dumas
p 61: Ibizan terracottas; pre-christian Phoenician statuettes in female form. authors: Granados, Noguera
p 83: Temples of silence; the 17th century church paintings of Pieter Saenredam. authors: Schwartz, Bok
p 108: Dream shoes; the famous shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo. author: Aschengreen Piacenta
p 121: Dear Jawlensky; 20th century painter Alexi Jawlensky. authors: Jawlensky, Di Milia, Kandisky

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FMR Apr 1991 # 49

p 17: beauty is there to comfort us. [Impressions] author: Storoni Mazzolani
p 21: Celtic gold. authors: Eluère, Pigot
p 43: Solima the Magnificent; the painter Francesco Solima from Naples. authors: Rea, Alberto Pavone
p 71: Black Africa; sculpture from Africa. authors: Monti, Togo-Tim
p 99: Idols that refuse to vanish; pagan idols from Roman time collected and restored in Renaissance. author: Chastel
p 115: The beautiful army; uniform art in Napoleotian army. authors: Guadalupi, Humbert, Erckmann-Chatrian
p 133: Light fantastics; lighters from the 20th century.

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FMR Jun 1991 # 50

p 17: Saint Sebastian painted by Mantegna. [Impressions] author: Arrows
p 25: Artemesia; the paintings by Artemesia Gentileschi. authors: Menzio, Papi, Banti
p 51: Claudel and Rodin; sculptures; with letter by Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. author: Di Milia
p 73: Lashes and Roubles; the winter palace in St. Petersburg. authors: Guadalupi, Gogol
p 105: Fruitful collaboration; 17th and 18th century picture frames by Vittorio Crosten. author: Mosco
p 123: Codex Hopiensis; the little people of peace of the Hopi Indians. author: Falassi

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FMR Aug 1991 # 51

p 17: the vision of Saint Augustine painted by Vittore Carpaccio. [Impressions] author: Weaver
p 25: Art for health's sake; the frescoes in the Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala at Siena by Vecchietta, Domenico di Bartolo and Priamo della Quercia. authors: Gallavotti Cavallero, Castiglioni
p 57: Matres Matutae; the ancient sculptures of the Mothers of Capua. authors: Bonghi Jovino, Bachofen
p 99: India kitsch. authors: Mandel, Mehta
p 99: The eternal woman; Dante Gabriel Rossetti. author: Benedetti
p 129: Paul Manship; American decor and statuettes. author: Manship

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FMR Oct 1991 # 52

p 17: the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Breughel the Elder. [Impressions] author: Cabrera Infante
p 25: Painter of truth; the 17th century Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino. author: Salerno
p 51: ABC of mechanics; wooden mechanical systems made by the 18th century Swedish scientist Christopher Polhem. author: Lindgren
p 65: Chapel of the Sorrows; paintings by the 18th century Catalan painter Antonio Viladomat at Santa Maria de Mataró in Barcelona. authors: Alcolea, Fontanals del Castillo
p 91: Gypsy heart; ethnographical watercolours made by Théodore Valerio in the 19th century of the lords of the Danube. authors: Peltre, Valerio
p 113: Little house of owls; the stained glass in the Casina della Civette by 20th century Italian artist Duilio Cambellotti and the architect Vincenzo Fasole. authors: Hoffmann, Morris
p 129: Renaissance cartoons; the Santa Maria de' Ricci in Florence. authors: Gontard, Lucas-Dubreton

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FMR Dec 1991 # 53

p 17: sculptures by 15th century Michael Pacher in Alto Adige. [Impressions] author: Bossi Fedrigotti
p 23: Lucanian underworld; Greek burial customs. authors: Kurtz, Boardman, Moscati, Napoli, Cavagnera
p 57: Misanthropic architecture; the odd sculptures and paintings of Villa Palagonia. authors: Lanza Tomasi, Brydone, Goethe
p 85: Bewitching beauty; the jewels and art of Schlumberger. author: Strong
p 109: Plastic void; the sculptures and sculpto-paintings of Alexander Archipenko, Ukranian 20th century. authors: Di Milia, Archipenko
p 125: Round and round we go; colourful horses and other animals from American carousels in the Charlotte Dinger collection. author: Dinger

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FMR Feb 1992 # 54

p 17: the Wrightman Magdalena by George de la Tour. [Impressions] author: Carter
p 23: Mantegna at Mantua; the painted chamber in the Castello di San Giorgio of Mantua by Andrea Mantegna. authors: Lightbown, Bellonci
p 71: An epic in stone; the sculptures in the Doric temple of Selinunte. authors: Gastoldi, Sciascia
p 99: Ottoman album; Sultan's portrait gallery. authors: Guadalupi, Grenville Murray
p 125: Samurai spirit; Japanese tsuba. authors: Calza, Musashi

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FMR Apr 1992 # 55

p 17: Jusepe de Ribera, the painting of the mystic marriage of St Catharine. [Impressions] author: Spinosa
p 23: Water music; fountains in the Villa d'Este in Rome. authors: Madonna, Mortron, Listri
p 53: Arcadia in Parma; the lost gardens of Arcadia, with sculptures of Jean-Baptiste Boudard. authors: Barocelli, Amoretti, Bigano
p 85: The art of the rule; the Benedictine cloister of Monte Oliveto with frescoes of Signorelli and Sodoma. authors: Wagenbach, Carli, Ponzani
p 113: A fleet of wooden citadels; small scale models of boats in the Musée de la Marine in Paris. authors: Bellec, Conras, Ponzani

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FMR Jun 1992 # 56

p 22: Microscosms of Lorraine. [Exhibitions] author: Thuillier
p 26: Feast of the Gods, a painting by Titian. [Studium] author: Brown
p 34: The warrior of Capestrano. [Impressions] author: Moscati
p 37: A tenebrous touch; paintings by Jusepe de Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto). authors: Pérez Sánchez, Palomino, Romano
p 73: The duke consort; Funeral sculpture of Adam Neipperg by Lorenzo Bartolino. authors: Dall'Acqua, Guadalupi
p 91: An illustration of tolerance; The Castilian Bible de Alba. author: Schonfield
p 117: Landscape in perspective; the 18th century German landscape painter Philipp Hackert. authors: Krönig, Goethe, De Luca

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FMR Aug 1992 # 57

p 22: Frontier gold treasures. [Exhibitions] author: Bergamini
p 26: Bosch at Chiaravalle. [Studium] author: Mulazzani
p 31: Metsys at Chiaravalle. [Studium] author: Limentani Virdis
p 34: The last of the Venetians; 18th century paintings of Tiepoli. [Impressions] author: Mathews
p 41: The secret Canova; Canova the painter. authors: Barilli, Marton
p 61: Reign of the three graces; Sculptures of Canova. authors: Barbieri, Kosareva, De Luca
p 89: Exultet of art and devotion; the 11th century cathedral of Ravello. authors: Gandolfo, Romano, Di Maggio
p 111: Salome of Poland; A painting by 17th century Bartholomäus Strobel the Younger. authors: Szczepinska-Tramer, Oronoz
p 131: Tanagra Ladies; The Tanagra collection. authors: Said, De Luca

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FMR Oct 1992 # 58

p 20: A coffee for van Gogh. [Studium] author: Westrich
p 27: St. Nicholas, the miracle worker; the frescoes in the great chapel of the basilica of St. Nicholas in Chienti. author: Benati
p 42: The life of St. Nicholas of Tolentino. author: Foran
p 59: Games in stone: Bernardo Buontalenti, an 16th century eclectic designer and architect. author: Cresti
p 80: A road through Italy. author: de Montaigne
p 83: Portraiture par excellence; Allen Ramsey, an 18th century artist of elegance and sensibility. author: Smart
p 103: A lion for a friend; Saint Jerome and his alter ego. author: Caprotti
p 124: Themes and variations: Saint Jerome. author: Langmuir
p 129: Sight of all ages; the mosaics in the Umayyad mosque of Damascus. author: Degeorge

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FMR Dec 1992 # 59

p 19: The evangelistary 'Pace' by Ariberto d'Intimiano from the 11th century. [Studium] author: Vergani
p 22: Ceres in the night; on the 'Mocking of Ceres' by Adam Elsheimer, a 17th century painter. [Impressions] author: Bonnefoy
p 27: Armoury of heroes; helmets of Vienna; the collection of Ferdinand Habsburg (1529-1595), archduke of the Tyrol. author: Beaufort
p 55: The ducal gaze; a diptych of Piero della Francesca of Frederigo da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza in the Uffizi, Florence. author: Lightbown
p 69: Illusions in stone; Florentine inlay in marble tables executed by Buen Retiro, 18th century. author: Gonzáles-Palacios
p 97: In praise of the key; ancient keys, caskets and locks. author: Cesati
p 113: Hollywood babies; little stars with a great future behind them (Sophia Loren, John Wayne, Joan Collins, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr, Ben Gazzara, David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Alain Delon, Ingrid Bergman, Fred Astaire, Noel Coward). author: Keates

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FMR Feb 1993 # 60

p 6: Glacial love; A painting of Mr & Mrs Andrews by Gainsborough. [Impressions] author: Almansi
p 10: A Machiavellian Emblem; a small painting by Rafael in the Uffizi. [Studium] author: Parronchi
p 13: An angelic band; Melozzo da Forlì in the holy house of Loreto. author: López
p 31: Concerning the speech of angels with man. author: Swedenborg
p 33: Toy theatres in wax; Giovanni Francesco Pieri 1699-1773. author: González-Palacios
p 59: The company of masterpieces; Compagnonnage; a dream of brotherhood. author: Roche
p 84: Adoniram. author: de Nerval
p 95: Ars Venandi; the 18th century painter Pietro Longhi and Venetian tales. author: Pignatti
p 115: Greeting from the rising sun; surimono, the greeting cards from old Japan. author: Markus

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FMR Apr 1993 # 61

p 6: The Barilla collection. [Exhibitions] author: Tassi
p 8: Portrait of the collector Pietro Barilla. [Exhibitions] author: Soavi
p 14: Bathsheba or the inner circle (a painting by Rembrandt of Bathsheba at her bath). [Impressions] author: Cixous
p 19: Imperial design; the Percier and Fontaine collection of interior designs. author: Gaillemin
p 44: The girl with the golden eyes. author: Honoré de Balzac
p 47: Venus Obesa; neolithic Malta, monuments of flesh. author: Mariotti; photographs: de Luca
p 52: Religion and life in ancient Malta. author: Evans
p 63: The surface of reality; the Elizabethan portraitist William Larkin. author: Strong; photographs: Shakerley.
p 83: A sermon in stone; the sculptures of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. author: Moralejo; photographs: Gómez, Oronoz.
p 104: The road to Santiago. author: Picaud
p 113: The thousand and one abodes; the Damascene house, a triumph of human industry. author: Degeorge

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FMR Jun 1993 # 62

p 6: Masterpieces of 17th century Andalusian art. [Exhibitions] author: Sterling
p 10: Francesco di Giorgio Martini. [Exhibitions] author: Bellosi
p 16: The second horizon; on Giorgio de Chirico. [Impressions] author: Malerba
p 19: Rome in a room; the imaginary galleries painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini. author: Guadalupi
p 33: The archive of the world; drawings of birds, vegetables, etc. in the Museum Chartaceum by the 17th century Cassiano dal Pozzo. author: Napoleone
p 51: Art in the Limelight; actors and stages painted in the 18th century by Johan Zoffany. author: Webster
p 75: Bronze beauties; the tomb of pope Sixtus IV by Antonio Pollaiolo. author: Webster; photographs: De Luca.
p 84: The pope Sixtus IV and his nephews. author: Gregorovius (1821-1891)
p 97: Eden for the Cardinal; the Villa Medici. author: Morel
p 124: 327 steps above the ground. author: About

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FMR Aug 1993 # 63

p 6: The painter Guido Cagnacci 1601-1663. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Palmanova, fortress of Europe 1593-1993. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Along the silk road, the lost empire; Buddhist art. [Exhibitions]
p 22: The painter Henri Gervex 1852-1929. [Exhibitions]
p 27: Caserta Felix; the royal palace of Caserta; the palace of the Bourbons of Naples. author: Marinella; photographs: De Luca, Listri.
p 65: Illuminations; 19th century lamps; the misfortunes of Argand. author: Musin
p 80: The inner light. author: Schivelbus
p 85: The Italo-Aztec theatre; the palacio de bellas artes of Mexico City. author: Moyssén
p 115: A Russian grand tour of Aleksandr Pavlovich Bryullov; Italy portrayed in water colour. author: Petrova

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FMR Oct 1993 # 64

p 6: The painter Ludovico Carracci 1555-1619. [Exhibitions]
p 8: The painter Thomas Eakins 1844-1916, and the heart of American life. [Exhibitions]
p 9: De Cézanne à Matisse; chefs-d'oevre de la fondation Barnes. [Exhibitions]
p 12: American art in the 20th century; painting and sculpture 1913-1993. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Flora and Florentia; Medicean flora; the Medici cult and cultivation of flowers. author: Mosco
p 28: Botanical notes. author: Rizotto
p 31: The endless parade; Benozzo Gozzoli; the procession of the Magi in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. author: Paolucci
p 58: The restoration of the pictorial cycle by Gozzoli. author: Acidini Luchinat
p 59: The Green Fable; the garden at Castello and the mannerist themes of space. author: Conforti; photographs: Listri
p 79: The Green Giant; the wonders of Pratolino. author: Heikamp
p 99: The Green Theatre; Boboli garden. author: Fagiolo
p 122: From Scarperia to Siena by Michel de Montaigne (1580).
p 125: Italian hours by Henry James.

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FMR Dec 1993 # 65

p 6: Eridità dell'Islam. [Exhibitions]
p 12: the painter Georg Flegel (1566-1638); Still Lifes. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Trésors de Mongolie, 17th-19th century. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Holbein and the court of Henry VIII: master drawings from the Royal collection. [Exhibitions]
p 19: Gloriana; Allegorical portraits of queen Elizabeth I. author: Roy Strong
p 41: Christmas white; Bethlehem in plaster: the crib made by Frederico Brandini (1522-1575). author: Anna Maria Massinelli
p 53: Habsburg-Loraine in Pose; the drawings made by Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) of Frances I and Maria Theresa and their children. author: Anne de Herdt
p 77: Olive-Grove Baroque; the haciendas of Sevilla. author: Rafael Atienzi; photographs: de Laiglesia
p 104: The architecture of the hacienda. author: María Cruz Aguilar
p 111: Fir in the buttonhole; American brooches. author: One Christmas by Truman Capote; photographs: Garavaglia

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FMR Feb 1994 # 66

p 6: The painter Mario Cavaglieri (1887- ): Gli anni brillanti dipinti 1912-1922. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Versailles et les tables royales en Europe. [Exhibitions]
p 14: La ville. [Exhibitions] authors: Art et architecture en Europe, 1870-1993
p 15: The short wing of youth; the painting made of John Evelyn by Robert Walker. [Impressions] author: Malcolm Rogers
p 19: The abode of the nymphs; Theaters of water in Rome. author: Marcello Fagiolo; photographs: de Luca
p 47: The pious humanist; the paintings made by Pinturicchio in the Piccolomini library in Siena. author: Enzo Carli; photographs: Ponzani
p 74: Enea Silvio, pontiff and poet. author: Luigi Firpo
p 85: A clowder of sneers; the character heads made by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) in the Museum of the Belvedere in Vienna. author: Otto Glandien
p 111: Yielding Allegories; the wax sculptures made by Caspar Bernard Hardy (1726-1819). author: Philippe Sorel

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FMR Apr 1994 # 67

p 6: La chimère de Monsieur Desprez (18th century painter). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Tintoretto a Venezia, 1594-1994; i ritratti. [Exhibitions]
p 12: La prima donna del mondo; Isabella d'Este. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Veronica and her veil; paintings. author: Alessandro Falassi
p 29: The legend of the Veronica. author: André Chastel
p 51: Fateful abode; the castle of Miramare of Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg. author: Rossella Fabiani
p 70: Departure from Miramare. author: Jasper Ridley
p 83: The sculpture of light; the Della Robbia works at la Verna. author: Giancarlo Gentilini; photographs: Visconti
p 105: Sellers of everything; the Grand Bazaar in Paris. author: Geneviève Musin

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FMR Jun 1994 # 68

p 6: Impressionisme, les origines 1859-1869. [Exhibitions]
p 8: L'universo poetico di Paul Valéry. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Restauro della Maestà di Simone Martini. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Giacomo Quarenghi; architetture e vedute. [Exhibitions]
p 13: A villa of abundance, Villa Barbaro; a villa made by Andrea Palladio and decorated by Paolo Veronese. author: Julian Barnes; photographs: Araldo de Luca, Roberto Ponzani
p 28: Villa Barbaro, a stately home. author: Michelangelo Muraro
p 45: Dressmaking and bullfighting. author: Pedro Soler Beltrán; photographs: Peter Müller
p 45: Olé! Bullfighter's costumes. author: Luis Miguel Dominguín; photographs: Peter Müller
p 60: Blodd and the bullring. author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
p 71: The titan of the north, the Danish sculptor Rudolph Tegner, 1873-1950, in the Tegner museum. author: Teresa Nielsen; photographs: Massimo Nielsen
p 97: Parthenopean Panopticon, a circular view of Naples by Edgar George Papworth, 1835. author: Cesare de Seta; photographs: Giuseppe Gaeta

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FMR Aug 1994 # 69

p 6: Pugin. A gothic passion. [Exhibitions]
p 8: François Pompon et la sculpture moderne: nature et abstraction. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Corps sublimes. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Wilhelm Leibl. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Firenze e la sua imagine dal XIV al XX secolo. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Tesori reali di Danimarca. [Exhibitions] author: 1709: Frederico IV a Firenze
p 14: La stanze del cardinale Monti, 1635-1650. [Exhibitions] author: La collezione ricomposta
p 15: The marmble Oasis; Leptis Magna. author: Antonio di Vita
p 30: Inside a town of Roman Africa: administration and religion. author: Mortimer Wheeler; photographs: Robert Polidori/Planet
p 43: Veni, vidi, vici, the triumphs of Caesar; Mantegna at Hampton Court. author: Ronald Lightbown; photographs: Geoffrey Shakerley
p 67: St. Peter's wooden models 1534-1546. author: Christof Thoenes; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 83: An anonymous Venetian; the Langmatt views. authors: Dario Succi, Gertrude Borghero
p 105: Art Déco Italian Style; the Gio Ponti porcelains. authors: Gio Ponti, Alessandro Garzella; photographs: Massimo Listri.

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FMR Oct 1994 # 70

p 6: Egyptomania. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Gustave Caillebotte. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Nicolas Poussin. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Le collezione d'arte della Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Parure. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Sofinisba Anguissola a le sue sorelle. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Gli uccelli dei Raineri. [Exhibitions] authors: Arte, natura e decorazione fra '700 e '800
p 16: Treasures in Heaven. [Exhibitions] author: Armenian illuminated manuscripts
p 17: Royal Reportage; 18th century Neapolitan painted photographs by Alessandro d'Anna. author: Marilena Mosco; photographs: Araldo de Lucca, Paolo Bacherini.
p 41: Shalom! the Kiev jewish treasure. author: Mikhail Kalnitsky
p 54: The Kiev Museum's collection. authors: Tatyana Romanovskaya, Elena Volkovinskaya
p 62: A tale of a rabbi and his only son. author: Rabbi Nakhman of Bratslev
p 67: The painter on the drawing room, Gaspare Traversi; the singular fluency of Traversi. author: Francesco Barocelli
p 95: The dream of king Christian of Denmark: the castle of Frederiksborg. author: Mette Bligaard
p 120: Festivities at the Frederiksborg castle. author: Jens Peter Jacobson

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FMR Dec 1994 # 71

p 6: Greek gold: jewelry of the Classical World. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Treasures of the Czars. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Face to Face: three centuries of artists' self-portraits. [Exhibitions]
p 10: James McNeill Whistler. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams.
p 14: De Bagdad à Ispahan, manuscrits islamiques de l'Institut d'études orientales de Saint Pétersbourg. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Les métamorphoses d'Orphéee. [Exhibitions]
p 16: André Derain. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Nefertari, Luce d'Egitto. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Omaggio a San Marco. [Exhibitions] author: Tesori dall'Europa
p 19: Monastic Caprices; the monastry of Trinità dei Monti; the Anamorphosis by Emmanuel Maignan. authors: Caterina Napoleone, Thomas J. McCormick; photographs: Araldo de Lucca.
p 34: The Ruin Room in the monastry of Trinità dei Monti. Charles-Louis Clérisseau.
p 45: A lesson in reading; the Waldsassen Library. author: Dieter Richter; photographs: Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe.
p 66: Of reading and owning books. author: Hermann Hesse
p 71: Royalist on parade, the painter William Dobson. author: Malcolm Rogers
p 87: Myths in Marble; Olympia pediments. author: Lidia Storoni Mazzolani; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 92: The pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. author: Antonio Giuliano
p 109: The chess king; games of Alfonso the Wise, the King in Check. author: Diego Vega; photographs: Oronoz
p 116: Mr Goodman's Four Seasons. author: Jacques Roubaud

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FMR Feb 1995 # 72

p 6: Impressionism in Britain. [Exhibitions]
p 6: The revival of the Palladian style; Lord Burlington and his house and garden in Chiswick. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), painter. [Exhibitions]
p 10: De Fortuny à Picasso; Trente ans de peinture espagnole (1874-1906). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Japon, saveurs et sérénité. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Les Flamands à Rome (1508-1608). [Exhibitions]
p 13: Arte antica. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Frederico II; Immagine e potere. [Exhibitions]
p 14: I tresore dei d'Avalos. [Exhibitions]
p 14: L'arte della tartaruga; le opere dei musei napoletani e la donazione Sbrizioli-De Felice. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Eredità dell'impressionismo 1900-1945; la realità interiore. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Frederico Fellini. [Exhibitions]
p 19: The castle of crossed styles; Issogne castle. author: Flavio Conti; photographs: Roberto Ponzani
p 49: Flora's plots; Large Leaf tapestries. author: Nello Forti Grazzini
p 79: Living marble; Bernini's busts. author: Rudolph Wittkover
p 92: Bernini's journey to France. author: Paul Fréart de Chantelou
p 107: The chest of memory; Fra Angelico's armadio degli argenti. author: Georges Didi-Hubermann; photographs: Nicolò Orsi Battaglini

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FMR Apr 1995 # 73

p 6: In perfect harmony. [Exhibitions] author: Picture & Frame 1850-1920
p 6: Spanish still life: from Velázquez to Goya. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Philippe de Champaigne et Port-Royal. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Rêves d'alcôves. [Exhibitions] author: La chambre au cours des siècles
p 9: Pierre Puget (1620-1694). [Exhibitions] author: Un artista franscese e la cultura barocca a Genova
p 10: Giuseppe Graziosi. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Tesori miniati. [Exhibitions]
p 12: I Farnese. [Exhibitions] author: Arte e collezionismo
p 14: Rediscovery: Apollo and Marsyas by Bronzino.
p 25: The plumed brush; the Rainieri birds. authors: Roberto della Seta, Susanna Massari
p 46: Chirp chirp. author: James Thurber
p 51: The cardinal's Olympus; the Carracci at palazzo Farnese. author: Loren Partridge
p 54: The cardinal's Olympus; the Galleria Farnese. author: Michel Hochmann
p 78: On the threshold of the baroque. author: Cesare Gnudi
p 81: Ora et Labora; Monte Cassino. author: Charles Forbes; photographs: Vincenzo Pirozzi, Luciano Romano
p 107: A flourish of Pyres; fireworks. author: Maria Wells; photographs: Beverly Welsh
p 111: Gala at the centre of the earth. author: Giacomo Casanova
p 116: A flourish of Pyres. author: Maria Wells

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FMR Jun 1995 # 74

p 6: The silver of Malta. [Exhibitions]
p 8: British sporting art. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Paradis perdus: l'Europe symboliste (paintings). [Exhibitions]
p 10: The genius of Wedgewood. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Carthage, l'histoire, sa trace et son écho. [Exhibitions]
p 11: L'heureux événement. [Exhibitions] author: Naître du XVII siècle à nos jours
p 12: Barocco italiano a Mantova. [Exhibitions] author: Due secoli di pittura nella collezione Molinari Pradelli
p 14: Identità e alterità. [Exhibitions] author: Una breva storia del corpo umano
p 14: Immaginario Inuit: arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Bernardo Strozzi (Genova 1582 - Venezia 1644). [Exhibitions]
p 15: Carlo Mattioli. [Exhibitions]
p 16: La scena vegetale a Piacenza dal barocco all'età romantica. [Exhibitions]
p 17: God's mount; the monastry of St. Catherine in the Sinai. author: George Forsyth; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 52: Where God came down; describing a magical ascent to the monastry of St. Catherine in 1894. author: Pierre Loti
p 83: Little women; Parisian dolls of the 19th century. author: Robert Capia; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 98: The Peg-doll. author: Rosemary Timperley
p 105: The laurel and the serpent; Antonio's Grifio's Petrach. author: Giordana Mariani Canova; photographs: Claudio Giudici

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FMR Aug 1995 # 75

p 7: L'empire des sultan. [Exhibitions] author: L'art ottoman de la collection Khalili
p 7: Opéra côté costumes. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Nathalie S. Gontcharova, Michel F. Larionov et les collections du Musée national d'art moderne. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Il barocco a Lecce e nel Salento. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Berrocal: sculture e disegni 1958-1995. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Mostra mercato nazionale del mobile antico di Cortona. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Eros und Mythos. [Exhibitions] author: Kunst am Hof Rudolfs II
p 14: Rediscovery: Caravaggio erotico. author: John T. Spike
p 23: Tears of marble; the Sidon sarcophagi. author: Bernard Andreae; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 42: Excavation report on the Sidon sarcophagi. author: Osman Hamdy Bey
p 53: The phantom garden, Ninfa. author: Pier Giacomo Sottoriva; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 64: Village of flowers, Ninfa. author: André Maurel
p 76: The wonderful temple of Ninfa. author: Cesare Brandi
p 77: Prodigy mother; the frescoes of Tor de' Specchi. author: Antonio Paolucci; photographs: Luigino Visconti
p 103: Seating English style; Coalbrookdale benches. authors: John Powell, Pippa Shirly; photographs: Geoffrey Shakerley
p 123: On the bench. author: Osaki

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FMR Oct 1995 # 76

p 6: Across continents and cultures: the life and art of Henry Ossawa Tanner. [Exhibitions]
p 6: The art of Louis-Léopold Bouilly: modern life in Napoleonic France. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Un diamant dans la ville: Jean Schlumberger, bijoux, objects. [Exhibitions] author: 1907-1987
p 10: Il Trecento riminese. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Ottocento di frontiera; Gorizia 1780-1850; Arte e cultura. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Filippo Juvarra architetto delle capitali; Da Torino a Madrid 1714-1736. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Dario Neri; Dipinti incisioni libri. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Gonzaga; Moneta arte storia. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Africa: the art of a continent. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The empire of the senses; Bartholomaeus Spranger, painter 1546-16??. author: Karl Schütz; photographs: Johann Kräftner
p 49: The Iron Duke; the armour of Allessandro Farnese (1545-1592). author: Christian Beaufort-Spontin; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 69: Vox Dei; the pulpit in the Pisa cathedral by Giovanni Pisano. author: Gert Kreytenberg; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 96: The art of Giovanni Pisano. author: Henry Moore
p 111: Embroided Genesis; the Gerona tapestry. author: Rosa Martín Ros; photographs: Ramón Manent

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FMR Dec 1995 # 77

p 6: La natura morta al tempo di Caravaggio. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Andy Warhol. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Christ's 2000th anniversary; events for the celebration of the jubilee 1996-1998-2000. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Il giappone prima dell'occidente; 4000 anni di arte e culto. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Richard & Maria Cosway, regency artists of taste and fashion. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Brighton revealed through artists' eyes c.1760-1960. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Dynasties: paintings in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Il était une fois la fête foraine. [Exhibitions]
p 20: Charles-Louis Clériseau; dessins du musée de l'Ermitage. [Exhibitions]
p 21: Art and empire; treasures from Assyria in the British Museum. [Exhibitions]
p 22: Johannes Vermeer. [Exhibitions]
p 28: Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Exhibitions]
p 28: Rembrandt/not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Exhibitions]
p 29: Lapis specularis; scagliole of the Reichs Kapelle in Munich under Maximilian I. author: Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 61: Paladins of Sicily; the pupi of Stanley Marcus' collection (Sicilian puppet theatres). author: Maria Xenia Zevelechi Wells; photographs: Beverly Deutsch
p 74: At the theatre with Pitrè; the Sicilian pupi. author: Gaston Vuillier
p 81: Stone virtue; the Cacace Chapel in Naples. author: Renato Ruotolo; photographs: Luciano Romano, Aldo Settembre
p 103: Libri Enarrant gloriam Dei; the bibliotheca Wiblingana. author: Wolfgang Kaiser; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Feb 1996 # 78

p 6: La leggenda del collezionismo; le quadrerie storiche ferraresi. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Una dolcetta inquieta; l'universo poetico di Eugenio Montale. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Alessandro Magno; storia e mito. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Restauration of Jacopo Zucchi's canvas and ceiling decorations of the Stanza della Muse; Villa Medici, Roma. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Balthasar Klossowkski de Rola (Balthus), painter. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Marie Clementine (Marie) Valadon, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Le compagnonnage (trade guilds), chemin de l'excellence. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Les ingénieurs de la renaissance de Brunelleschi à Léonard de Vinci. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Livres en broderies. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Fabergé in America. [Exhibitions]
p 17: A casket of learning; the library of Admont. author: Gianfranco Malafarina; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 33: Souvenirs from Barbados; sailor's Valentines. author: Noël Riley; photographs: Danila Caravaglia
p 51: Impossible cities; the imaginary views of Antonio Basoli. author: Alessandra Borgogelli; photographs: Massimo Listri.
p 78: Carthage en fête. author: Gustave Flaubert
p 81: Warrior's rest; the crypt of the Grand Masters in Malta. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Araldo de Luca
p 105: Chinoiserie in the boudoir; the porcelain Salottino at Capodimonte. authors: Silvana Guida, Nicola Spinosa; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 124: Capodimonte revisited. author: Nicola Spinosa

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FMR Apr 1996 # 79

p 6: Scultura lignea; Lucca 1200-1425. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Alessandro Magnasco 1667-1749. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Dei ed Eroi. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Felice Casorati. [Exhibitions]
p 12: De Caneletto a Kandinski; obras maestras de la colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Goya. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Der Himmel auf Erde (Giovan Tiepoli); Residenz Würzburg. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Corot, 1796-1875. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Fortunato depero futuriste; de Rome à Paris, 1915-1925. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Un trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Constant Permeke, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 18: David Livingstone and the Victorian encounter with Africa. [Exhibitions]
p 20: The art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: beauty reconfigured. [Exhibitions]
p 21: Masked ball; the frescoes of Cesky Krumlov. author: Jean-Louis Gaillemin; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 46: Wanderings in Bohemia. author: Rainer Maria Rilke
p 51: Bound treasures; English 20th century bookbindings. author: Marianne Tidcombe
p 81: Doremifah; accordions at Castelfidardo. author: Davide Anzaghi; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 99: The porcelain age; Ginori statuettes. author: Stefano Papetti; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 113: Victorian Olympus; Fredric Leighton. author: Gianfranco Malafarina

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FMR Jun 1996 # 80

p 6: The treasure of Troy. [Exhibitions]
p 6: William Morris. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Les années romantiques, 1815-1850. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Arménie entre Orient et Occident; 3000 ans de civilisation. [Exhibitions]
p 11: I Greci in Occidente. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Bergamo, 200 anni della Accademia Carrara 1796-1996. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Il tesoro della città; opere d'arte e oggetti preziosi da Palazzo Madama. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Crivelli e le Marche; l'Annuciazione. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Fra Bartolomeo e la `Scuola di San Marco'. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Félicien Rops. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Ulisse, il mito e la memoria. [Exhibitions]
p 19: Tropic of butterflies; the lepidoptera of Ellis Rowan. author: Nicholas Lambourn
p 26: Tropic of butterflies; the lepidoptera of Ellis Rowan; a naturalist's impressions. author: Richard Vane-Wright
p 32: The butterfly poet. author: Marcel Roland
p 35: A.E.I.O.U; the crypt of the Capuchins in Vienna. author: Magdalena Hawlik-van de Water; photographs: Johan Kräftner
p 62: Last interment in the crypt of the Capuchins. author: Franz Werfel
p 67: Pathway to wisdom; the Schussenried Library. author: Johann von Behr; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 83: A simple heart; Spanzotti at Ivrea. author: Giovanni Testori; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 102: Giovanni Testori & Martino Spanzotti. author: Giovanni Romano
p 112: The church and the convent of San Bernardino at Ivrea. author: Renzo Zorzi
p 115: Lady Sun; Khourshid Khanoum embroideries. author: Herman Vahramian; photographs: Hertzel Nassiri

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FMR Aug 1996 # 81

p 6: Domenico Fetti. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Francesco Podesti. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Le Immagini delle Spirito. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Giambattista Tiepoli: forme e colori; la pittura del settecento in Friuli. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Giandomenico Tiepoli: maestria e gioco; disegni dal mondo. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Immagini della Brenta. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Tesori da Praga. [Exhibitions]
p 13: La nascita della modernità. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Stift Melk - Geistliches kulturelles Zentrum. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Comme un oiseau. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Francis Bacon. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The obscure muse; Julien de Parme, painter 18th century. author: Pierre Rosenberg
p 42: From de correspondence of Julien de Parme.
p 45: The many face of water; Roman Mascarons (water bassins). author: Giorgio Manganelli; photographs: Araldo De Luca, Massimo Listri
p 50: The many face of water; Fountains of Rome (water bassins). author: Cesare D'Onofrio; photographs: Araldo De Luca, Massimo Listri
p 67: A courtly rustic epic; Jacuerio at Ranverso, 15th century painter. author: Andreina Griseri; photographs: Marco D'Anna
p 89: Jain marbles; temples at Mount Abu. author: Marcello Tranchini; photographs: Anita & Marcello Tranchini
p 111: Camiones de Escalera; Columbian trucks. author: Anna Nannini Fusai; photographs: Tancredi Nannini
p 122: On the Mountain Goats. author: Alvaro Mutis

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FMR Oct 1996 # 82

p 6: Restoration: Galliari's fresco at Cassano d'Adda.
p 8: Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europe. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Roberto Guastalla, `pellegrino del sole'. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Immagini del sentire; I cinque sensi nell'arte. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Pelagio Palagi pittore; Opere dalle collezioni del Commune di Bologna. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Biennale di Firenze; il tempo e la moda. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Art Déco - Boemia 1918-1938. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Pisanello. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Paradise on Earth; the garden in Dutch art from the 15th to the 18th century. [Exhibitions]
p 19: Dessiner la nature. [Exhibitions]
p 20: Nara, trésors du temple du Kofukuji. [Exhibitions]
p 21: Photos by García; Mexican portraits. author: Elena Poniatowska; photographs: Romualdo García
p 33: Splendour at sunset; the Angevins at San Giovanni a Carbonara. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Romano, Aldo Settembre
p 69: Cuzco the Pious; the corpus of St Anne. author: Luis Wuffarden; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 109: Faith on display; John Talman's drawings. author: Cinzia Sicca; photographs: Geoffrey Shakerley

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FMR Dec 1996 # 83

p 6: Georges de la Tour and his world. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Jan Steen. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Cité interdite, vie publique et privé des empereurs de Chine (1644-1911). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Décors d'opéra. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Giulio Carmignani (1813-1890). [Exhibitions]
p 11: Splendori di una dinastia; l'eredità europea dei Manin e dei Dolfin. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Ethnos; gioielli da terre lontane. [Exhibitions]
p 13: L'Officina della Maniera; varietà e fierezza nell'arte fiorentina del Cinquecento fra le due repubbliche, 1494-1530. [Exhibitions]
p 14: La scienza illuminata - Paolo Mascagni nel suo tempo. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Paesaggi perduti - il vedutismo di François-Marius Granet 1802-1824. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Peregamo; il fregio di telefo dal grande altare. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Domenichino, 1581-1641. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Celestial delights; the Cornaro chapel by Bernini. author: Caterina Napoleone; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 45: Grotesque visions; Cesare Baglione at Soragna. author: Giuseppe Cirillo; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 69: The gospel according to Füllmaurer; the Mömpelgarder Altar. author: Karl Schütz; photographs: Johann Kräftner
p 95: Baroque light; the abbey of Weltenburg. author: Caroline von Arnim; photographs: Bertram Freiherr von Reitz zu Frenz
p 117: Fabulous fakes; American costume jewelry. authors: Guy de Maupassant, Gabriella Mariotti; photographs: Giovanni Ricci

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FMR Feb 1997 # 84

p 6: Die Botschaft der Musik; 1000 Jahre Musik in Österreich. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Una exposición antólogica: Vicente Macip (c.1475-1550). [Exhibitions]
p 7: Tous les savoirs du monde. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Alfred de Dreux: le cheval, passion d'un dandy parisien. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Dramatic Art: theatrical paintings from the Garrick Club. [Exhibitions]
p 10: The Victorians: British painting in the reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Pietro da Cortona per las sua terra; da allievo a maestro. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Un pittore e la sua città; Benedetto Bonfigli e Perugia. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Immagini degli dèi; Mitologia e collezionismo fra cinquecento e seicento. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Reopening of the Doria Pamphilj Gallery. [Restorations]
p 14: Restoration of the legend of the true Cross by Piero della Francesca (left wall Arezzo). [Restorations]
p 16: Restoration and reopening of the Pinacoteca of the Accademia Albertina. [Restorations]
p 17: The Bishop on High; Tiepolo at Würzburg. authors: Gianni Guadalupi, Gianfranco Malafarina; photographs: Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe
p 50: The fresco on the ceremonial staircase in Würzburg by Tiepolo. author: Gianfranco Malafarina
p 55: Tourists from Albion; Grand Tour's travellers. author: Cesare de Seta
p 75: Sideways glances; Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptures and terracottas. author: François Souchal; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 97: Hidden senses; images of sensation. author: Silvia Ferino-Pagden; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 118: The nose's nose. author: Giovanni Mariotti

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FMR Apr 1997 # 85

p 6: Cartier, 1900-1939. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Passione per la vita; la revoluzione dell'arte messicana nel XX secolo. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Le Crociate; L'oriente e l'occidente da Urbano II a San Luigi (1096-1270). [Exhibitions]
p 8: Il colore del dubbio; Heinrich Ludolf Verworner, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Iside; il miti il mistero la magica. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Da Hayez a Klimt; maestri dell'ottocento e novecento della galleria Ricci Oddi. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Das Capriccio als Kunstprinzip. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Michelangelo und seine Muse: Vittoria Colonna. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Paul Delveaux, painter (1897-1994). [Exhibitions]
p 14: Arts rituels d'Océanie: la Nouvelle-Irlande (New Ireland). [Exhibitions]
p 14: Sébastien Stoskopff, painter (1597-1657). [Exhibitions]
p 16: Jean Pillement, painter (1728-1808) e o paisagismo em Portugal no século XVIII. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Angelic ways; Bolivian angels. authors: José de Mesa, Teresa Gisbert
p 36: Bolivian angels; extracts from the books of Eunoch.
p 41: African kings; the art of Benin. author: Armand Duchâteau; photographs: Susanne Glawischnig
p 61: The rebirth of the Baptist; the Salimbeni brothers in Urbino. author: Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré Dal Poggetto; photographs: Luigino Visconti
p 95: Memento legere; the library of Ottobeuren. author: Martin Mosebach; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 111: Homesick for Manila; Filipino hospitality. author: John Foreman
p 111: Homesick for Manila; José Honorato Lozano. author: Gianni Guadalupi

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FMR Jun 1997 # 86

p 7: Van Dyck a Genova; grande pittura e collezionismo. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Il riordino museale delle scuole piemontesi alla Galleria Sabauda. [Exhibitions]
p 8: India; antiche miniature e dipinti. [Exhibitions]
p 10: La festa a Roma dal Rinascimento al 1870. [Exhibitions]
p 11: L'immagine riflessa: dalla stampa alla porcellana. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Riflessi di Roma; impero Romano e barberi del Baltico. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Franc-maçonnerie, avenir d'une tradition. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Paris-Bruxelles/Bruxelles-Paris. [Exhibitions]
p 14: The glory of Byzantium. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Renoir's portraits; impressions of an Age. [Exhibitions]
p 17: A world of dwarves; the master of the fertility of the egg. author: Caterina Napoleone
p 39: In the land of Satin. author: François Rabelais
p 43: The eye of heaven; Mexican Angles. author: Jorge Hernández; photographs: Anne & Henri Stierlin
p 63: Light on the Riviera; Monet and the Mediterranean. author: Giuseppe Marcenaro
p 83: Baroque exultation; the `Fornimento Venier' by Andrea Brustolon. author: Filippo Pedrocco; photographs: Paolo Marton, Giovanni Ricci
p 105: The Pope's atlas; the Vatican Map Gallery. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Alessandro Angeli, Danilo Pivato

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FMR Sep 1997 # 87

p 7: Mark Catesby's natural history of America; the watercolors from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Henry Raeburn, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Prague 1900-1938; capitale secrète des avant-gardes. [Exhibitions]
p 11: L'impératrice Joséphine et les sciences naturelles. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Rudolph II and Prague. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Giovanni Francesco Gerrieri, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Füssli pittore di Shakespeare; pittura e teatro 1775-1825. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Da Boccioni a Sironi - il mondo di Margherita Sarfatti. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Venezia da stato a mito. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Dadaismo Dadaismi; da Duchamp a Warhol; 300 capolavori. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Knights of the high sea; naval carvings. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 30: Knights of the high sea; poor knight. author: Cornelio Magni
p 39: Following Buddha; the great Stupa at Sanchi. author: Marcello Tranchini; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 63: The dandy of painting: Pier Leone Ghezzi. author: Anna Lo Bianco
p 85: Cascades of diamonds: Van Cleef & Arpels. author: Anne Carion
p 103: God's balcony; the Campionese masters in Modena cathedral; the choir loft. authors: Renzo Grandi, Augusto Bergamini; photographs: Daniele Mussatti

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FMR Oct 1997 # 88

p 6: Incanto e anatomie del seno (the breast). [Exhibitions]
p 6: Van Eyck q confronto: 'le stigmata di san Francesco' nei Musei di Torino e di Filadelfia. [Exhibitions]
p 8: I Farnese a Piacenza: il palazzo e i Fasti. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Simone Cantarini, detto il Pesarese 1612-1648. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Magnificenza alla corta dei Medici; arte a Firenze alla fine del Cinquecento. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Fayum: Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Treasures from Mount Athos. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Zuloaga: Spanish treasures from the Khali collection. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur, 1758-1823. [Exhibitions]
p 19: Mesure de l'île. [Exhibitions]
p 20: John Martin: visions of the biblical flood. [Exhibitions]
p 27: The deluge and other catastrophes. [Exhibitions]
p 33: Neapolitan lamentations; Guido Mazzoni in Naples. authors: Adalgisa Lugli, Massimo Ferretti; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 59: A river of stone; the Nilotic mosaic at Palestrina. author: Caterina Napoleone; photographs: Araldo de Luca
p 84: Egyptian fauna. author: Claudius Aelianus
p 91: Dolce vita; portraits by Giberto Severi. authors: Rossana Bossaglia, Gabriella Severi; photographs: Danila Garavaglia
p 107: Between cinema and painting. author: Giberto Severi
p 115: In libris, veritas; the Kremsmünster library. author: Gianfranco Malafarina; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Dec 1997 # 89

p 6: Pieter Breughel der Jüngere - Jan Breughel der Ältere: Flämische Malerei um 1600. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Princely patrons; the collection of Frederik Hendrik of Orange and Amalia van Solms in The Hague. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Splendeur persanes. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Jacques-Emile Blanche. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Victorian fairy paintings. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Tesoros de México; oro precolumbino y plata virreinal. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Napoleone Bonaparte a Verona (1797). [Exhibitions]
p 13: Napoleone Bonaparte e Campoformido. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Napoleone Bonaparte; Brescia e la Repubblica Cisalpina. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Galanterie; oggetti di lusso e di piacere in Europa tra Settecento e Ottocento. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Il crocifisso di Ariberto. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Genio e Passione. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Henri Matisse. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Casa Barilli; una famiglia di artisti fra Ottocento e Novecento. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Bethlehem in Murcia; the Crib by Francisco Salzillo. author: Cristóbal Navarro; photographs: Carlos García
p 33: Marble Cosmesis; Cosmati pavements in Rome. author: Caterina Napoleone; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 59: Dreams on stage; Füssli and Shakespeare. author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 74: Füssli: reluctant libertine. author: Gianfranco Malafarina
p 85: Princely devotion; the Hofkirche at Würzburg. author: Caroline von Arnim; photographs: Wolf-Christiaan von der Mülbe
p 105: Beastly feasts; Palissean ceramics. author: Léonard Amico

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FMR Feb 1998 # 90

p 6: L'universo poetico di Arthur Rimbaud. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Capolavori della pittura spagnola del Secolo d'Oro. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Leopardo a Pisa. [Exhibitions]
p 9: La miniatura a Ferrara. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Diego Riviera - Frida Kahlo. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Francesco Salviati (painter), Firenze 1510 - Roma 1563. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Los Iberos, príncipes de Occidente. [Exhibitions]
p 13: The jewels of Lalique. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921); peintre d'histoire. [Exhibitions]
p 14: L'art au temps des rois maudits; Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328). [Exhibitions]
p 16: René Magritte (painter). [Exhibitions]
p 17: The Venetian room at Würzburg, Bavaria. author: Dieter Richter; photographs: Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe
p 37: The peak of the Most High; the Sacro Monte of Varese. author: Luigi Zanzi; photographs: Marco D'Anna
p 65: The King's hours; the breviary of Philip II. author: Francisco Blay; photographs: Manuel Caparrós
p 71: The bibliophile king (Philip II). author: Henry Kamen
p 77: Casts of the great; the Gipsoteca in Florence; the Venus of Ille. author: Prosper Mérimée; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 107: Cards on the table; the Sola-Busca tarot cards. author: Franco Pratesi; photographs: Giovanna Lalatta
p 125: The Sola-Busca tarot cards; iconographic note. author: Marzia Faietti

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FMR Apr 1998 # 91

p 6: La collezione Pizzi; una quadreria del seicento. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Ambrogio da Fossano detto Bergognone; una pittore per la Certosa. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Lorenzo Lotto. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Il gotico a Piacenza; maestri e botteghe tra Emilia e Lombardia. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Fernando Spagnuola e altri maestri iberici nell'Italia di Leonardo e Michelangelo. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Scienza e miracoli nell'arte del Seicento. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Rabisch/Arabeschi; Lomazzo, l'ambiente milanese e il grottesco nell'arte del Cinquecento. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Chaumet, Paris. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Delacroix, les dernières années (1850-1863). [Exhibitions]
p 15: Les savants en Egypte. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Estorick collection of modern Italian art. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Venetian gold; Crivelli's polyptych in Ascoli cathedral. author: Stefano Papetti; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 39: For Pity's sake; the Della Robbia's frieze in Pistoia. author: Vittorio Sgarbi; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 55: Hospitals and the sicks (history of medicin). authors: Maurice Bariéty, Charles Coury
p 61: Terracotta a l'Ancien Régime; Augustin Pajou. author: Guilhem Scherf; photographs: Sebastien Straessle
p 81: L'Ile galante; costume in Malta. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 98: L'Ile galante; costume in Malta; island festivals. author: Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu
p 103: Little Germany; Herter Brother's furniture. author: Katherine Howe; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Jun 1998 # 92

p 6: L'immagine della città italiane dal 15th al 19th secolo. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Bernini scultore e la nascita del Barocco in casa Borghese. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Cornice barocche e stampe restaurate dai depositi di Palazzo Pitti. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Catarina di Russia la Grande. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Angelo Inganni; un pittore bresciano nella Milano romantica. [Exhibitions]
p 9: I Della Robbia e `l'arte nuova' della scultura invetriata. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Thomas Gainsborough. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Caspar David Friedrich. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Romana pictura; la pittura romana dalle origine all'età bizantina. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Austria Impressions; Rosennetz. [Exhibitions]
p 14: A la gloire de roi; van der Meulen, peintre des conquêtes de Louis XIV. [Exhibitions]
p 14: La gloire d'Alexandrie. [Exhibitions]
p 15: La dance des kachina. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Carravaggio and his Italian followers. [Exhibitions]
p 17: A bestiary in stone - the zoophorus in Parma baptistery; the bestiaries. author: Umberto Eco; photographs: Daniele Broia, Floriano Finzi
p 24: A bestiary in stone - the zoophorus in Parma baptistery; Antelami's programme for the relief decoration of the Parma baptistery. author: Chiara Frugoni; photographs: Daniele Broia, Floriano Finzi
p 37: Malta and the New World; the tapestries of Malta. author: Nello Grazzini; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 75: The heavenly host; (The sculptures of) Ciro Ferri in the church of the Gesù in Rome. author: Jennifer Montagu; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 91: Little princes; childhood at the court of Savoy. author: Gianni Guadalupi
p 104: Nicely brought up; the memoires of Giuseppe Roberto Malines di Bruino in Savoy.
p 111: High spirits; epitaphs from Sapîntsa. author: Bruno Mazzoni; photographs: Roberto Ponzani, Gérard Pestarque

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FMR Aug 1998 # 93

p 6: Barocco e Mediterraneo. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Dosso Dossi. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Capolavori di maiolica della collezione Strozzi Sacrati. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Giardini regali; fascino e immagini del `verde' nelle grande dinastie: dai Medici agli Asburgo. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Giuseppe Maria Crespi e altri maestri bolognesi nelle collezioni di castel Thun. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Teatro della regione e teatro del desiderio; l'arte di Alexandre Benois e Léon Bakst. [Exhibitions]
p 13: La Toison d'or. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Millet et van Gogh. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Trésors d'horlogerie. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Paul Klee (1879-1940). [Exhibitions]
p 15: Pieter de Hoogh. [Exhibitions]
p 16: 600 years of British painting: the Berger collection. [Exhibitions]
p 17: New worlds from old: 19th century Australian & American landscapes. [Exhibitions]
p 27: Mystic brides; nuns' shields from colonial Mexico. author: Guillermo Tovar de Teresa; photographs: José González Manterola
p 52: Mystic brides; the legend of the shawl. author: Luis González Obregón
p 55: Art and Madness; Adolff Wölfli. author: Hemmo Müller-Saar
p 55: The double life of Adolff Wölfli. authors: Adolff Wölfli, Elka Spoerri
p 83: Memento Mori; the triumph of the death in Palermo. author: Caterina Napoleone
p 107: Casa Gaudí; the furniture by Antonio Gaudí. authors: Luis Gueilburt, Josep Garrut; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 126: Gaudí's functionalism. author: Josep Garrut

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FMR Oct 1998 # 94

p 6: Il mondo di Giacomo Casanova; un veneziano in Europa, 1725-1798. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Michael Pacher e la sua cerchia, 1498-1998. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Gli Orientalista italiani; cento anni di esotismo, 1830-1940. [Exhibitions]
p 8: La natura morta a palazzo e in villa; le collezioni dei Medici e dei Lorena. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Le vie del mondo. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Sovrane passioni; le raccolte d'arte della Ducale Galleria Estense. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Opening of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Couleurs de la terre. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Figures du ciel. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Mirror image; Jonathan Miller on reflection. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Francisco de Zurbarán. [Exhibitions]
p 15: A grand design: the art of the Victoria & Albert Museum. [Exhibitions]
p 16: The invisible made visible: angels from the Vatican. [Exhibitions]
p 17: White art: Russion ivories. author: Mariolina Doria de Zuliana; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 28: Old ivories. author: Gianni Guadalupi
p 39: Outremer; the Hospitaller's mediterranean journey to Malta (Malta's frescoes). author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 67: Chamber of rock; Orazio Marinali at Costazza (garden sculptures). author: Francesca di Thiene; photographs: Giovanni Ricci, Roberto Bigano
p 89: Off the wars in lace; armour by the Negroli. author: Lionella Boccia
p 114: Grand style Mannerism. author: Jean-Pierre Reversean
p 115: The sculptor of Würzburg; Tilman Riemenschneider. author: Hanswernfried Muth; photographs: Marco D'Anna

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FMR Dec 1998 # 95

p 6: Da Caravaggio a Ceruti; genere e realità nella pittura italiana. [Exhibitions]
p 6: L'anima e il volto; ritratto e fisiognomica da Leonardo a oggi. [Exhibitions]
p 7: L'Ariccia del Bernini. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Filipe II; un monarca y su época. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Albert & Isabella (1598-1621). [Exhibitions]
p 11: Issey Miyake making things. [Exhibitions]
p 12: David Hockney landscape. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Cachemires parisiens à l'école de l'Asie, 1810-1880. [Exhibitions]
p 14: The art of the country house. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Grinling Gibbons and the art of carving. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Royal Persian paintings: the Qajar epoch, 1785-1925. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Il seicento e settecento romana nella collezione Lemme. [Exhibitions]
p 21: Magnified portraits (by the 19th century painter Giuseppe Tominz). author: Renato Barilli; photographs: Marino Ierman
p 51: Warriors' rest; the Caracciolo di Vico chapel in Naples. author: Denise Pagano; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 81: One hundred flowers; the `Vélins' by Daniel Rabil. author: Antoine Schnapper; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 98: The war of tulips. author: Alexandre Dumas
p 107: Painted cities; frescoes from Shekhawati in India. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 122: A journey through Rajasthan. author: Maurice Dekobra

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FMR Feb 1999 # 96

p 6: El Greco; identidad y transformación. [Exhibitions]
p 6: John Singer Sargent, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Millais (painter): portraits. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Mark Rothko (painter). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Portraits by Ingres. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Goya, un regard libre. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Trésors médiéveaux de la République de Macédoine. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Nicolas Poussin; i primi anni romani. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Alessandro Algardi (17th century sculptor). [Exhibitions]
p 15: Domenico Corvi (1721-1803). [Exhibitions]
p 16: Da Montezuma a Massimiliano; itinerari messicani attraverso le `Camere delle delle Meraviglie' e la collezione Bottacin. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Cristoforo Munari (1667-1720); maestro della natura morta. [Exhibitions]
p 21: The enchanted mountain; Nimrud Dagh sculptures. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 44: The inscription at Nimrud Dagh.
p 49: In the name of the father; the landscapes of Jan Breughel the Elder. author: Gianfranco Malafarina; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 66: Small men, large views (Jan Breughel the Elder). author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 71: Seventy saints; bust-reliquaries in the Gesù Nuovo in Naples. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 85: Trompe-l'oeil for the Empress; the villa of Poppaea at Oplontis. author: Baldassare Conticello; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 109: Little Rome; cork models from Aschaffenburg. author: Dieter Richter; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Apr 1999 # 97

p 6: Orazio Gentileschi at the court of Charles I. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Splendors of Meiji; treasures of imperial Japan. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Arent de Gelder (1645-1727, painter). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Anthony vn Dyck 1599-1641, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 12: L'art égyptien au temps des pyramides. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), un maître anglais de l'imaginaire. [Exhibitions]
p 13: La Ragione e il Metodo; immagini della scienza nell'arte italiana. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Rubens e il suo secolo. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Gaetano Previati 1852-1920; un protagonista del Simbolismo europeo. [Exhibitions]
p 17: La spada e il melograno; vita quotidiana al castello medievale (1271-1500). [Exhibitions]
p 18: `Oh, giornate del nostro riscatto'; Milano della Restaurazione alle Cinque Giornate. [Exhibitions]
p 20: Arte sublime nell'antico Egitto. [Exhibitions]
p 23: The tombs of the mighty; the Grand Masters' mausoleums in Malta. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 43: Malta Felix. author: Patrick Brydone
p 61: The Madonna of the Merchant; Bermejo's triptych at Acqui Terme. author: Giacomo Rovera; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 81: Illustrations for the Good Book; the bible of Koberger. authors: Walter Eichenberger, Henning Wendland; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 98: The dawn of the art of printing. author: Alberto Manguel
p 105: Paradise on earth; the pavement of San Michele at Anacapri. author: Luciana Arbace; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 120: Sister Serafina. author: Norman Douglas

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FMR Jun 1999 # 98

p 6: Pier Leone Ghezzi; Settecento alla moda. [Exhibitions]
p 8: La miniatura a Padova dal Medioevo al Settecento. [Exhibitions]
p 8: The new galleries in Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza. [Exhibitions]
p 9: La bellisima maniera; Allesandro Vittoria e la scultura veneta del Cinquecento. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Royal Persian paintings: the Qajar epoch, 1785-1925, Brunei Gallery, London. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Het Nederlandse stilleven, 1550-1720, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Rembrandt by himself, National Gallery, London. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Morandi, exposición antológica, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Les bronzes de la Couronne, Musée du Louvre, Paris. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Topkapi à Versailles, trésors de la cour ottomane, Versailles. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Devi, the great goddess, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The triumph of the Baptist; Mattia Preti in Malta (the frescoes of St John's in Valletta). author: John Spike; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 37: The shells of the Medicis; the nautiluses of the Pitti Palace in Florence. author: Marilena Mosco; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 69: Mail from Mussolino; post office buildings during the facism. author: Cesare de Seta
p 93: Royal Post Clerks. author: Emilio De Marchi
p 101: Notes on the Post Office buildings.
p 104: Roman bestiary; the animals of the Louvre album Peintures d'Herculanum. author: Marie-Noëlle Pinot de Villechenon; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 116: A handbook of classical Zoology. author: Pliny the Elder

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FMR Aug 1999 # 99

p 6: La morte e la gloria; Capelle Mediciee, Florence. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Alla ricerca dell'Eden; il paesaggio della Versilia nella pittura italiana fra otto e novecento. [Exhibitions]
p 9: D'Annunzio e la scoperta della Versilia; la Versiliana, Marina da Pietrasanta. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Porto di mare; 1570-1670; pittori e pittora a Palermo tra memoria e recupero; Church of San Giorgio dei Genovesi. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, regista dal Barocco; Palazzo Venezia, Rome. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Fernando Botero; Florence. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Le marche del Gotico al primo Rinascimento; Il maestro di Campodonico e i rapporti artistici fra Umbria e Marche nel trecento. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Le marche del Gotico al primo Rinascimento; Lorenzo e Jacopo Salimbeni dan San Severino e la civiltà tardo-gotico. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Le marche del Gotico al primo Rinascimento; il gotico internazionale a Fermo. [Exhibitions]
p 13: I trionfi del barocco; architectura in Europa 1600-1750, Turin. [Exhibitions]
p 13: James Stuart of Killymoon; an Irishman on the grand tour 1766-1768. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Femmes de l'Ancient Testament; Nice. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Les trésors des Médicis, château de Blois. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The stones of peace; the castle of Friedenstein at Gotha. authors: Bernd Schäfer, Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 45: In the country of up there; paper lace. authors: Charles Apothéloz, iconography René Creux
p 71: Ruins fit for a feast; Maiolica in Pavia in the 17th and 18th centuries. authors: Elena Pelizzoni, Marica Forni
p 89: Celestial melodies; Gaudenzio Ferrari at Saronno. author: Sandro Boccardi; photographs: Alfredo Fusetti
p 110: Gaudenzio Ferrari: between Leonardo and Dürer. author: Maria Teresa Fiorio
p 113: The saint who was a stable boy; the ceiling of the church at Dädesjö. author: Bengt Söderberg; photographs: Hans Hammarskiöld

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FMR Oct 1999 # 100

p 6: Hokusai; il vecchio pazzo la pittura. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Pompeii. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Alessandro Turcha 1578-1649 (painter). [Exhibitions]
p 8: Giovinezza di Michelangelo. [Exhibitions]
p 8: il Rinascimento a Venezia e la pittura del Nord ai tempi di Bellini, Dürer, Tiziano. [Exhibitions]
p 9: L'immagine, il culto, la forma (sculptures in Umbria). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Art made modern: Roger Fry's vision of art. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Onder den Oranje boom (Schloss Oranienburg). [Exhibitions]
p 10: The art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Sir John Soane (architect). [Exhibitions]
p 14: Vivant Denon, l'oeil de Napoléon. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Une fasteuse horloge-automate: la Nef dite 'de Charles Quint'. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Chardin, 1699-1779 (painter). [Exhibitions]
p 17: Sublime ruins; Hubert Robert's paintings from Russian collections. author: Baldine Saint Girons
p 48: An overcrowded solitude (in 1767). author: Denis Diderot
p 51: The hunter's Olympus; the park of the Royal Palace in Caserta. author: Cesare de Seta; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 84: The schoolboys of Caserta (excerpt from `South of Naples', 1954). author: Roger Peyrefitte
p 89: The Antipodean Bestiary; the Lesueur collection in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle at Le Havre. author: Jacqueline Bonnemains; photographs: Philippe Bassot, Daniel Léonard
p 113: Of perals and popes; the papal medaillons from the Cabinet des Médailles. author: Irène Aghion; photographs: Sebastian Straessle

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FMR Dec 1999 # 101

p 6: El siglo de los Genoveses; Palazzo dei Dogi, Genoa. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Il diluvio universale; Trent. [Exhibitions]
p 6: La visione del prisma; la collezione Wolfson, Parma. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Bagliori del medioevo; arte romanica e gotica del Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Da Wildt a Martini; i grandi scultori del novecento. [Exhibitions] author: Milan
p 10: Villa Medici; collezione e artisti di Fernando de' Medici. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Velázquez, Rubens y Van Dyck: pintores cortesanos del siglo XVII, Madrid. [Exhibitions]
p 13: James Ensor, painter, Brussels. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Brésil baroque, entre ciel et terre, Paris. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Souvenirs moscovites 1860-1930, Paris. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The phantoms of the Opéra; the Palais Garnier. author: Gérard Fontaine; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 60: The divine child; figures of the infant Jesus in the Hiky Mayr collection. author: Elisabetta Silvestrini; photographs: Marco Rapuzzi
p 90: A precocious Child, an extract from the Armenian Childhood Gospel.
p 93: The portable screen (or handscreens); ventole from the Moliterno collection. author: Alberto Milano
p 111: Helen in Rome; Maarten van Heemskerck's ruin landscape. author: Martin Stritt

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FMR Feb 2000 # 102

p 6: Pittura barocca a Roma dal Cavelier d'Arpino a Fratel Pozzo; la collezione Fagiolo. [Exhibitions]
p 7: La Milano del `giovin signore'; le arti nel settecento di Parini. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Francesco Borromini e l'universo barocco. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Terrasanta; dalla crociata alla custodia dei luoghi santi. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Roy Lichtenstein; Riflessi - reflections. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Worlds of transformation; Tibetan art of wisdom and compassion. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Art des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord dans la collection Eugene et Clare Thaw. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Delaroche, un peintre dans l'histoire. [Exhibitions]
p 16: El bodegón español de Zurbarán a Picasso. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Il cento capolavori dell'Ermitage; Impressionisti e Avanguardie alle Scuderie Papali al Quirinale. [Exhibitions]
p 23: Seeing salvation: the image of Christ. [Exhibitions]
p 29: The boundless chest; the Uppsala cabinet made by Philipp Hainhofer. author: Daniel Rey; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 51: The beautiful in the year 2000; traces of the future. author: Domenico De Masi; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 75: The door that never was; the sculptor Luciano Fontana. author: Cecilia De Carli; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 100: My friend Luciano Fontana. author: Giorgio Soavi
p 107: Illuminated ancestors; the Capodilista Codex. author: Tiziana Franco; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 124: Padua in the 14th century. author: Gianni Guadalupi

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FMR Apr 2000 # 103

p 6: Amazzoni dell'Avanguardia (Venice). [Exhibitions]
p 6: Gorzia Barocca; una cittaà italiana nell'impero degli Asburgo. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Biedermeier (Padua). [Exhibitions]
p 8: San Rocco nell'arte; un pellegrino sulla Via Francigena (Piacenza). [Exhibitions]
p 8: Tanzio da Varallo (Milan). [Exhibitions]
p 10: L'idea del bello; viaggio per Roma nel seicento con Giovan Pietro Bellori (Rome). [Exhibitions]
p 11: Baltic light: early open-air painting in Denmark and North Germany (Copenhagen). [Exhibitions]
p 11: Yemen; nel paese della regina di Saba (Rome). [Exhibitions]
p 12: Stroganoff; the palace and collections of a noble Russian family (Portland). [Exhibitions]
p 14: Soleils mexicains (Paris). [Exhibitions]
p 16: Utopie (Paris). [Exhibitions]
p 17: Italie, il sogno di Stendhal (Genoa). [Exhibitions]
p 24: To his sister Pauline (Milan). [Exhibitions]
p 27: The pagoda on the Channel; the royal pavilion at Brighton. author: Roy Strong; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 59: Poor Brighton. author: Paul Theroux
p 63: Architectonic harmonies; John de Cesare. author: Elaine Evans Dee
p 85: The treasury of the Sun King; cameos and intaglios of Louis XIV's collection. author: Mathilde Avisseau-Broustet; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 114: The Bishop's parnassus (sculptures by Ferdinand Tietz for the prince-bishop of Würzburg). author: Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann; photographs: Marco D'Anna

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FMR Jun 2000 # 104

p 6: Piceni, popolo d'Europa (Teramo). [Exhibitions]
p 7: Codex; mille anni di manoscritti della Bibliotheca Ambrosiana (Milan). [Exhibitions]
p 7: Cosmos; da Goya a de Chirico, da Friedrich a Kiefer; l'arte alla scoperto dell'infinito (Venice). [Exhibitions]
p 9: Napoleone Bonaparte in Egitto; una spedizione tra conquista e conoscenza 1798-1801 (Rome). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Anno 1300: il primo giubileo; Bonifacio VIII e il suo tempo (Rome). [Exhibitions]
p 11: Pompeo Correale collezionista, mecenate e artista (Naples). [Exhibitions]
p 12: Los Siglos de Oro en los Virreinatos de América 1550-1700 (Mexico City). [Exhibitions]
p 14: Los Honores; the tapestries of Charles V (Malines). [Exhibitions]
p 14: The glory of the Golden Age; Dutch art in the 17th century (Amsterdam). [Exhibitions]
p 15: L'ingénieur et ses modèles (Lille). [Exhibitions]
p 16: Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) (Paris). [Exhibitions]
p 17: Rediscovery; Artemisia Gentileschi. author: John Spike
p 21: Rediscovery; Michelangelo. author: Julian Stock
p 25: Saints from the Indies; ivories from Spanish and Portuguese colonies. author: Lydia Sada de González; photographs: José González Manterola
p 47: Old Mexico. author: Luís González Obregón
p 55: Theatre in miniature; scenery models by Piero Bonifazio Algieri. author: Jérôme de La Gorce; photographs: Pascal Lemaître
p 73: Lettre to Mrs Orbe. author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
p 77: Painted skies; the frescoes at Palazzo Albergati. author: Eugenio Riccòmini; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 115: Tropical flavours; still lifes by Albert Eckhout. author: Diego Vega

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FMR Aug 2000 # 105

p 5: Naples in Rome; the Bourbons at Palazzo Farnese. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Rita Paesani
p 29: The 19th century decoration of Palazzo Farnese. author: Caterina Napoleone
p 33: A city of Arabesques; Mamluk architecture in Cairo. author: Henri Stierlin; photographs: Anne and Henri Stierlin
p 52: Cairo on the Razzle. author: Ibn Battuta
p 65: Neapolitan charity; the chapel of the Monte di Pietà. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 93: Art Nouveau renaissance; the Falize's jewels. author: Michèle Heuzé. ; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 113: Enlightened popes; the splendour of 18th century Rome on show in Houston. author: Valter Curzi

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FMR Oct 2000 # 106

p 7: Codice B. I Vangeli dei Popoli (Rome). [Exhibitions]
p 8: Carolus (Toledo). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Art and the Empire City: New York 1825-1861 (New York). [Exhibitions]
p 12: Visions du futur; une histoire des peurs et des espoirs de l'humanité (Paris). [Exhibitions]
p 13: The Pompeii of the sand dunes; the mosaics at Cyrene. authors: Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, Caterina Napoleone; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 41: Sacred Assembly; Bergognone in Santa Maria della Passione. author: Pietro Marini; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 67: To the glory of Charles V; the tapestries of the battle of Pavia. authors: Nicola Spinosa, Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 111: The tears of the moon; Mapuche silverware. authors: Carlos Martínez Sarasola, Isabel Iriarte; photographs: Fernando Javier Urquijo, Michel Riehl

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FMR Dec 2000 # 107

p 6: Guiseppe Verdi; l'uomo, l'opera, il mito. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Pietra dipinta; opere su pietra del cinquecento e del seicento.
p 9: Dipingere la musica; strumenti in posa nell'arte dal quattrocento al settecento. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Cleopatra regina d'Egitto. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Il Dio nascosto; capolavori dell pittura religiosa francese del seicento. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Children at their finest; portraits of children in the Low Countries 1500-1700. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Zubarán; la obra final 1650-1664. [Exhibitions]
p 14: M.K. Ciurlionis (1875-1911). [Exhibitions]
p 16: European helmets, 1450-1650; treasure from the Reserve Collection. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The magic cave; the Nymphaeum at Lainate. author: Alessandro Morandotti; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 53: A legion of patron saints; bust reliquaries in the treasury of Saint Januarius. author: Elio Catello; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 77: The Glyptic workshop; the goblets by the Miseroni. authors: Rudolf Distelberger, Caterina Napoleone; photographs: Hans Kräftner
p 102: The art of rock crystal. author: Caterina Napoleone
p 113: The demoiselles of Peterhof; Pietro Rotari in Petersburg. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Feb 2001 # 108

p 6: Luigi Vanvitelli e la sua cerchia. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Sacre Passioni; scultura lignea a Pisa dal XII al XV secolo. [Exhibitions]
p 9: L'arte del gioiello e il gioiello d'artista dal '900 ad oggi. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Carravaggio e i Giustiniani; toccar con mano una collezione del seicento. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Antonio Ligabue. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Bernardo Belotto 1722-1780. [Exhibitions]
p 13: L'oro degli Avari. [Exhibitions]
p 14: La création du monde; Fernand Léger et l'art africain des collections Barbier-Mueller. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Les années Pop. [Exhibitions]
p 15: The genius of Rome 1592-1623. [Exhibitions]
p 16: American folk art collection du Fenimore Art Museum. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Gardens of Illusion; Bolognese landscape rooms. author: Anna Ottani Cavina; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 31: Gardens of Illusion; The Veldt. author: Ray Bradbury
p 57: Museum Librorum; the library of the Girolamini in Naples. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 80: A thousand an one pagodes; the discovery of Pagan. author: Henry Yule
p 80: A thousand an one pagodes; the temples at Pagan. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 107: Under a majolica sky; the ceramics of Castelli. author: Adele Anna Amadio; photographs: Maurizio Anselmi

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FMR Apr 2001 # 109

p 6: Luca Giordano 1634-1705. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Arti decorative in Sicilia dal Rinascimento al Barocco. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Da Canaletto a Constable; vedute di città e di campagna dallo Yale Center for British Art. [Exhibitions]
p 10: II potere Ie arti la guerra; lo splendore dei Malatesta. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Mengs; la scoperta del Neoclassico. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Le très singulier Vallotton. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Perino del Vaga; tra Raffaello e Michelangelo. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Italies; l'art italien a l'épreuve de la modernité, 1880-1910. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Jardins persans et moghols; echos du paradis. [Exhibitions]
p 17: I cillegi in fiore; coralità e riti di una festa; opere di Gino Covili. [Exhibitions]
p 25: The Lugano Passion; Bernardino Luini at santa Maria degli Angeli. author: Pietro Marani; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 43: The twilight of a king; the frescoes at Neuschwanstein. author: Mario Pasi; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 71: The death of the Swan. author: Klaus Mann
p 75: The marble cloak; the Santa Casa at Loreto. author: Stefano Papetti; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 92: The story of a miracle. author: abbé Grillot
p 113: The book of marble; the mineral collection of Leone Strozzi. author: Alvar Gonzáles-Palacios

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FMR Jun 2001 # 110

p 6: EI Renacimiento mediterráneo; Viajes de artistas e itinerarios de obras entre Italia, Francia y Espana en el siglo XV. [Exhibitions]
p 6: The jewelled Arts of India in the age of the Mughals. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Vénus, mythe oublié; représentations d'une déesse de Cranach à Cezanne. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Les gemmes de Louis XIV. [Exhibitions]
p 10: 20 siècles en cathédrales. [Exhibitions]
p 11: 'W VERDI', il mito verdiano. [Exhibitions]
p 11: La tempesta del mio cor; il gesto del melodramma dalle arti figurative al cinema. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Giovan Battista Nini (1717-1786); da Urbino aIle rive della Loira; paesaggi e volti europei. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Bergamo; l'altra Venezia; il rinascimento negli anni di Lorenzo Lotto (1510-1530). [Exhibitions]
p 16: Teatro e spettacolo nella Firenze dei Medici. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Velázquez e il suo terzo viaggio in Italia. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Viaggio in Italia; un corteo magico dal Cinquecento al Novecento. [Exhibitions]
p 23: The smart set poses; Bernard Boutet de Monvel. author: Patrick Mauriès
p 41: Allways in vogue. author: Edna Woolman Chase
p 45: Staging Plaermo; the Teatro Massimo. author: Mario Pasi; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 66: Falling stars. author: Maria Messina
p 75: Dreamtime; aborigine painting on bark. author: Emmanuel Anati; photographs: Giovanni Ricci
p 101: Bandeirantes; monument by Victor Brecheret in São Paulo. author: Luiz Marques; photographs: Thomas Baccaro
p 118: Mission. author: Father Burges

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FMR Aug 2001 # 111

p 6: Written in the Stars; art and symbolism of the Zodiac. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Hieronymus Bosch. [Exhibitions]
p 7: María Magdalena, mito y metáfora. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Napoléon, les Bonaparte et l'Italie. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Pieter Boel (1622-1674); peintre des animaux de Louis XIV; le fonds des études peintes des gobelins. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Sur le vif, dessins d'animaux de Pieter Boel (1622-1674). [Exhibitions]
p 13: Vermeer and the Delft School. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Tra Gotico e Rinascimento; scultura in Piemonte. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Un ritrattista nell' Europa delle corti; Giovanni Battista Lampi (1751-1830). [Exhibitions]
p 16: La collezione Borgia; curiosità e tesori da ogni parte del mondo. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The colleges of Islam; the Madrasahs of Fès the Learned. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Giovanni Ricci, Massimo Listri
p 35: The Madrasahs of Fès. author: Scott O'Connor
p 49: Regina Coeli; Giovanni Lanfranco's dome at Sant'Andrea della Valle. author: Claudio Strinati; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 68: Giovanni Lanfranco, painter. author: Giambattista Passeri
p 89: The sense of the fairy tale; the Tadini archipelago. author: Franco Marcoaldi
p 100: The sense of the fairy tale. author: Emilio Tadini
p 111: The king's hours; clocks at the Royal Palace in Caserta. author: Maria Nappi; photographs: Luciano Romano

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FMR Oct 2001 # 112

p 6: 'Un paese incantato'; Italia dipinta da Thomas Jones a Corot. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Picasso; 200 capolavori dal 1898 al 1972. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Erté; fascino e seduzione Déco. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Wunderkammer siciliana; alle origini del museo perduto. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Balthus. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Vedute napoletane della Fondazione Alisio. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Brazil; body and soul. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Virtue and beauty; Leonardo's 'Ginevra de' Benei' and renaissance portraits of women. [Exhibitions]
p 15: L'or der rois scythes. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Paris-Barcelone; de Gaudí 'à Miró. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The thirteenth labour; The apotheosis of Hercules by François Lemoyne at Versailles. author: Xavier Salmon; photographs: Jean-Marc Maniï
p 49: Terracotta faces; Giovan Battista Nini. author: Anna Cerboni Baiardi; photographs: Thierry Prat
p 71: In flight; futurist aeropainting. author: Maurizio Scudiero
p 90: Manifesto of aeropainting.
p 93: Scenes from China; the chinese rooms in the castle of Racconigi. author: Angela Griseri; photographs: Filippo Gallino
p 113: Sheiks of Egypt; the portraits by Michele Rigo al Malmaison. author: Bernard Chevallier; photographs: Sebastian Straessle

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FMR Dec 2001 # 113

p 6: Nel segno di Masaccio; l'invenzione della prospettiva. [Exhibitions]
p 6: Segni e sogni della Terra: il disegno del mondo dal mito di Atlante alle geografica delle reti. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Rinascimento; capolavori dei musici italiana; Tokyo - Roma 2001. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Rococo: a riot of ornament; the decorative arts in 18th century Holland. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Forma; el ideal clásico en el arte moderno. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901), un visonnaire moderne. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Blood; perpectives on art, power, politics and pathology. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Raphaël; Grâce et beauté. [Exhibitions]
p 15: The exposed; the Victorian nude. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Agatha Christie and archeology; mistery in Mesopotamia. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The Gonzaga dowry; Andrea Mantegna and Paola Gonzaga's wedding chests. author: Sylvia Ferino-Pagden; photographs: Hans Kräftner
p 65: The Emperor's herbarium; Historia Plantarum. author: Gianfranco Malafarina
p 77: The Magician of Naples; Cosimo Fanzago, sculptor and decorator. author: Maria Catalano; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 100: Fanzago Decorator. author: Maria Catalano; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 111: Model officers; Portraits by Georg Günther Kräill. author: Daniel Rey; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Feb 2002 # 114

p 6: Painted ladies: women at the court of Charles II, 1660-1685. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Hampton Court, by Alexandre Dumas. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Paris, capital of the arts 1900-1968. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Cosmé Tura: painting and design in Renaissance Ferrara. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647); un pittore fra Parma, Roma e Napoli. [Exhibitions]
p 19: Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856); un autre romantisme. [Exhibitions]
p 20: L'art de la plume en Amazonie. [Exhibitions]
p 21: Pandemonium; Hieronymus Bosch's triptych of the Last Judgement. author: Renate Trnek; photographs: Hans Kräftner
p 45: The enamelled city; Samarkand. author: Henri Stierlin; photographs: Anne and Henri Stierlin
p 75: Kindergarten; Dutch portraits of children. author: Jan Baptist Bedaux
p 97: The Master of Silence; terracottas by Antonio Begarelli. author: Luigi Magnani; photographs: Patrizio Pederzini

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FMR Apr 2002 # 115

p 6: Vincenzo Poppa; un protagonista del rinascimento. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, fondatore e interprete dell'Espressionismo. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Il neoclassicismo in Italia; da Tiepolo a Canova. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Zenobi; il sogno di una regina d'Oriente. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Micco Spadaro; Napoli ai tempi di Masaniello. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Gaetano e Ubaldo Gandolfi; opere scelte. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Officina veneziana; Maestri e botteghe nella Venezia del Settecento. [Exhibitions]
p 14: The curious world of Michael Sweerts (1618-1664). [Exhibitions]
p 15: Madame de Pompadour et les arts. [Exhibitions]
p 16: La belle époque de la pub.
p 17: Artistic grimaces; Annibale Carracci's portraits. author: Stephen Pepper
p 40: Dedicated to Annibale Carracci. author: Catarina Napoleone
p 43: The Divine scene; the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. author: Mario Pasi; photographs: Luciano Romano, Roberto Ponzani
p 68: A Brazilian in Vicenza (on the Teatro Olimpico). author: Jorge Amado
p 79: Saints of Bohemia; the paintings of master Theodoric at Karlstejn Castle. author: Jiri Fajt; photographs: Radovan Bocek
p 100: Episodes from the life of Charles IV (master Theodoric). author: Gianni Guadalupi
p 106: Aristocratic pathches; collages from Palermo. author: Catarina Napoleone
p 121: 'Dear Palermo'. author: Patrick Brydone

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FMR Jun 2002 # 116

p 6: Mondrian de 1892 à 1914; les chemins de l'abstraction. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Le franc-maçon en habit de lumière, esprit et matière. [Exhibitions]
p 8: George Romney, painter (1734-1802). [Exhibitions]
p 10: Earth and fire; Italian terracotta sculpture from Donatello to Canova. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Il ritratto in Lombardia da Moroni a Ceruti (1550-1750 circa). [Exhibitions]
p 14: New York renaissance masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola; la vita e le opere (1507-1573). [Exhibitions]
p 25: The Pseudo-Coorte; Mauro Davoli and Adriaan Coorte. author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 43: About Adriaen Coorte. author: Laurens Bol
p 49: The ocean in Rome; the Trevi fontain. author: Antonio Baldini
p 56: The ocean in Rome; the Trevi fontain. author: Mario Gori Sassoli; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 79: Ariccia 'Beauties'; portraits of ladies at palazzo Chigi. author: Francesco Petrucci; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 92: Ariccia 'Beauties'; portraits of ladies at palazzo Chigi; baroque affairs. author: Marie Mancini
p 101: Marble paradise; the chapel of San Cataldo in Taranto. author: Elio Catello; photographs: Luciano Romano

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FMR Aug 2002 # 117

p 6: L'ombra del genio; Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze dal 1537 al 1631. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Automi; meraviglie meccaniche francesi e tedesche del XIX e XX secolo. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Il quattrocento a Camerino; Luce e prospettiva nel cuore della Marca. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Cranach, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Gotik Schätze Oberösterreich. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Lucian Freud, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Año internacional Gaudí. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Les Della Robbia; Sculptures en terre cuite emaillée de la Renaissance italienne.
p 15: Max Beckmann, un peintre dans l'histoire. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Anne Vallayer-Coster, painter to the court of Marie-Antoinette. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Fouquet's fault; the gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte. author: Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 47: Fatal festivities (about Fouquet). author: Paul Morand
p 55: To our feet; the Schoensiegel collection (of footwear). authors: Christine Thomson, Philippa Scott
p 73: Of feet and love. author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 81: The illuminated church; frescoes at San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan. author: Marco Bona Cestellotti; photographs: Massimo Ripani
p 111: Placido Fabris; bourgeois portraits. author: Paola Segramora Rivolta; photographs: Marino Ierman

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FMR Oct 2002 # 118

p 6: Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa; gli inifiniti di Giacomo Leopardi. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Gonzaga; la Celeste Galeria; il museo dei duchi di Mantova. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Luce di taglio: preziosi momenti di una nobildonna veneziana; una giornata di Faustina Savorgnan Rezzonico. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Pierre Auguste Renoir; la luce dell'Impressionismo. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Lucrezia Borgia. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Sargent e l'Italia. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Il mito d'europa; da fanciulla rapita e continente. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Il trecento adriatico; Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente ed Occidente. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Praga Magica, l'art à Prague au temps de Rodolphe II. [Exhibitions]
p 16: La geste kongo. [Exhibitions]
p 17: David Wilre - genre painter. [Exhibitions]
p 18: Deceptions and illusions: five centuries of trompe-l'oeil painting. [Exhibitions]
p 25: The sheperdess queen; the album of the Petit Trianon. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 47: The delights of the Trianon. author: Madame Campan
p 51: The grain of the woodcutter; Alberto Sani. author: Massimo Lippi; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 58: To Alberto; in memory of Alberto Sani. author: Albert Lassueur
p 59: No ordinary woodcutter (Alberto Sani). author: Dario Neri
p 75: A Catalan symphony; the Palas de la Música in Barcelona. author: Carlo Cresti; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 103: Din din; aristocratic rattles. author: Michèle Heuzé. ; photographs: Andrea Da Gasso

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FMR Dec 2002 # 119

p 6: Il design Cartier visto da Ettore Sottsass. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Le stanze della musica; Artisti e musicisti a Bologna dal '500 al '900; Le quadreria di Rossini; il ritorno della collezione Hercolani a Bologna. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Rembrandt; Dipinti, incisioni e riflessi sul '600 e '700 italiano. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Gaspare Vanvitelli e le origini del vedutismo. [Exhibitions]
p 10: I Borgia. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Rituels tibétains; Visions secrètes du Ve Dalaï Lama. [Exhibitions]
p 15: Constable; le choix de Lucian Freud. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Mad, bad and dangerous; the cult of Lord Byron. [Exhibitions]
p 17: 'Il trionfo di Bacco'; Capolavori della scuola ferrarese a Dresda (1480-1620). [Exhibitions]
p 21: Magna Graeccia; Greek art from south Italy. [Exhibitions]
p 25: Sardini Sacra; Sardinian romanesque architecture. author: Roberto Coroneo; photographs: Donatello Tore
p 55: Paradise light; Mattia Preti at San Biagio in Modena. author: John Spike; photographs: Ghigo Roli
p 81: La Scarzuola; Tomaso Buzzi's utopic city. author: Carlo Cresti; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 109: Teufelbrücke; the devil's bridge at the saint Gotthard pass. author: Gabriele Reina
p 126: The Devil's Bridge, from 'La Suisse illustrée', Paris 1851.

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FMR Feb 2003 # 120

p 6: Arthur Rackham, painter. [Exhibitions]
p 7: Picasso joven. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Cosa da vedere. Preziosi oggetti da vista tra il 1770 e il 1850. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo. [Exhibitions]
p 14: The floral art of Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). [Exhibitions]
p 16: L'art premier des Iapyges; céramique antique d'Italie méridionale. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Life in the villa; Giovanni Antonio Fasolo at Villa Caldogno, Veneto. author: Renaud Temperini; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 47: Giuseppe Bottani; sacred and profane paintings. author: Chiara Perina
p 75: From canvas to stone; Giuseppe Zocchi. author: Annamaria Giusti; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 105: Fortuny the Magician; fabrices by Mariano Fortuny, a tenacious passion for beauty. author: Silvio Fuso; photographs: Massimo Listri, Claudio Franzini
p 125: Maison d'artiste (a visit to Palazzo Fortuny). author: Henri de Régnier

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FMR Apr 2003 # 121

p 5: Parures triomphales; le maniérisme dans l'art de l'armure italienne. [Exhibitions]
p 17: Gold on the skin; bejewelled nudes 16th to 20th century. author: Marilena Mosco
p 46: Marble of Paros. author: Théophile Gautier
p 46: The favorite sultana. author: Victor Hugo
p 47: Jewels. author: Charles Baudelaire
p 48: Salome 1. author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
p 50: Salome 2. author: Oscar Wilde
p 50: The chimaera. author: Gabriele d'Annunzio
p 51: The third Parmesan, Girolamo Mazzoli Bedoli (c.1500-1569). author: Bruno Zanardi; photographs: Carlo Vannini
p 71: The Queen's Gallery; the Clouets at Chantilly. author: Nicole Garnier
p 95: A holy ancestor; the Corsini chapel in Rome. author: Catarina Napoleone; photographs: Luciano Romano

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FMR Jun 2003 # 122

p 5: Costumes et masques du théatre nô. [Exhibitions]
p 18: The fortunes of Parmigianino's 'Cupid carving a bow'. [Exhibitions] authors: Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Robert Wald
p 33: Le voyage de Gênes; miniatures by Jean Bourdichon. author: Gabriele Reina
p 52: A fragile love; the stained glass windows in the Galerie de Psyché at Chantilly. author: Nicole Garnier; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 79: The temple of fame; the Walhalla on the Danube, commisioned by Ludwig I, king of Bavaria. author: Jörg Traeger; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 103: The rest of the warrior; the Ramon de Cardona funerary monument at Bellpuig, Catalonia. author: Riccardo Nardi; photographs: Luciano Pedicini

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FMR Aug 2003 # 123

p 7: La natura morta italiana da Caravaggio al Settecento. [Exhibitions]
p 8: La grande svolta - Gli anni '60. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Europa e Cina alle corte, dei Ming - Incontro di civiltà nell'esperienza storica di Matteo Ricci-Li Madou. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940). [Exhibitions]
p 12: Shakespeare in art. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Bartolomé Bermejo y su época. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Pedro Berreguete - El primer pintor rinacentista de la Corona de Castilla (1503-2003). [Exhibitions]
p 17: The square colosseum; the Palazzo della civiltà at the EUR in Rome. author: Carlo Cresti; photographs: Andrea Jemolo
p 39: The loviest ladies in the realm; the gallery of beauty at Nymphenburg. author: Peter Krückmann; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 65: Barocco at Montreale; the Chapel of the Crucifix in Montreale cathedral. author: Catarina Napoleone; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 99: Da Sphaera; the astrological manuscript from the Biblioteca Estense in Modena. author: Ernesto Milano; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti

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FMR Oct 2003 # 124

p 7: Hans Holbein. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Kazemir Malevich: Suprematism. [Exhibitions]
p 9: Da Pompei a Roma. [Exhibitions]
p 12: Tanagra, mythe et archéologie. [Exhibitions]
p 14: Duccio; alle origine della pittura senese. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Below stairs; 400 years of servants' portraits. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The society of the learned; the Institut de France in Paris. author: Jean-Pierre Babalon; photographs: Massimo Listri, Sebastian Straessle
p 48: A living library (in the Institut de France). author: Erik Orsenna
p 51: Ars Venatoria; the Livre de Chasse by Gaston Fébus. author: François Avril
p 71: The legend of Saint Julian. author: Gustave Flaubert
p 81: The sacred theatre; the church of Ca' Nave at Cittadella. author: Giuliana Ericana; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 105: The bishop's loggia; Girolamo Romanino in Trent. author: Francesca de Gramatica; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti

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FMR Dec 2003 # 125

p 6: Africa; capolavori da un continente. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Persone; ritratti di gruppo da Van Dyck a De Chirico. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Ferdinand Khnopff, 1858-1921. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Bonaparte en Italie; aquarelles de Bagetti (1764-1831). [Exhibitions]
p 14: Cortes del barroco; de Bernini y Velázquez a Luca Giordano. [Exhibitions]
p 16: Gothic; art for England 1400-1547. [Exhibitions]
p 17: A Portuguese Bethlehem; 18th century cribs. author: Arnaldo Pinto Cardoso; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 39: Signorelli at Loreto; frescoes in the sacristy of San Giovanni. author: Stefano Papetti; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 61: Stylite monsters; capitals at the Modena cathedral. author: Arturo Carlo Quintavalle; photographs: Chigo Roli
p 79: The fruits of enlightment; still lives by Luis Meléndez de Rivera. author: Juan Luna
p 107: Painted stones; pietre paesine. author: Anna Maria Massinelli; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Feb 2004 # 126

p 6: Bosch and Bruegel: inventions, enigmas and variations. [Exhibitions]
p 8: Love from the Heritage. [Exhibitions]
p 10: Botticelli. [Exhibitions]
p 11: Parures de tête. [Exhibitions]
p 13: Franco Maria Ricci - Collezionista Editore Bibliofilo. [Exhibitions]
p 16: A traverso lo specchio; storia, inganno e verità di uno strumento di conoscenza. [Exhibitions]
p 17: The deeds of the duke; Villa Imperiale in Pesaro. author: Paolo Dal Poggetto; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 49: Encounters at Heideggers House; Antonio Joli at Richmomd. author: Ralph Toledano; photographs: Matthew Hollow
p 69: The duke and the cassowary; the animals by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. author: Xavier Salmon
p 87: The refulgent room; The Sala di Ruggero in Palermo. author: Pasquale Hamel; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 105: The refulgent room; Roger II. author: Francis Marion Crawford
p 109: The Indies of the Sun King; watercolours of Siam. author: Gianni Guadalupi

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FMR Apr 2004 # 127

p 8: the vision of the translator (St Jerome). [Emotions] author: William Weaver
p 10: Eurydice forsaken. [Exhibitions] author: Cesare de Seta
p 13: Ceres in the night. [Exhibitions] author: Yves Bonnefoy
p 17: Flemish melancholy. [Exhibitions] author: Michael Butor
p 25: The shadows of silence. author: Angela Carter
p 29: The desert of namelessness; the Tower of Babel in painting. author: Giorgio Manganelli
p 36: The Tower of Babel in painting - a last note on Babel. author: Jorge Luis Borges
p 42: The City of God; the Tower of Babel in painting. author: Saint Augustinus
p 43: Notes to the images of the Tower of Babel in painting. author: Alessandro Tossi
p 52: The painter of absence Domenico Gnoli. author: Italo Calvino
p 61: Medicean Eternity; the Cappella dei Principe. author: André Chastel
p 72: Notes to the images of the Medici cities in the coats of arms of the Cappella dei Principe. author: Gloria Fossi
p 84: Florence under the Grand Dukes. author: Mario Praz
p 87: Folks from Purísima; Hermenegildo Bustos, an Indian Mexican painter. author: Octavio Paz; photographs: Rafael Doniz
p 113: Shower of gold; automated gambling machines. author: Yves Hersant; photographs: Gérard Pestarque

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FMR Jul 2004 # 1

p 1: Going into detail; introduction. author: Paolo Fabbri
p 6: Intimacy with painting. author: Daniel Arasse
p 17: Caravaggio in Sicily; in the master's footsteps. author: Vincenzo Consolo
p 25: Yannis Tsarouhis, painter; an obsession with bodies. author: Patrick Mauriès
p 43: Flags of Europe; the golden crown. author: Yves Hersant; photographs: Andrea Da Gasso
p 53: The Sala degli Animali in the Vatican; the stone zoo. author: Danilo Mainardi; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 80: The Sala degli Animali in the Vatican; notes to the images. author: Giandomenico Spinola
p 85: Real Colegio de España in Bologna; the cardinal's legacy. author: Gianni Guadalupi; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 96: Real Colegio de España in Bologna; a fresco lost and found. author: Joé García Valdecasas
p 105: Valerio Adami; through the looking-glass. author: Antonio Tabucchi
p 116: Valerio Adami; dissemblings. author: Amelia Valtolina
p 125: Black on Black; blackness and madness. author: Fulvio Pellegrino Morato
p 125: Black on Black; introduction. author: Yves Hersant
p 129: Black on Black; blackness and steadfastness. author: Coronato Occolti

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FMR Sep 2004 # 2

p 1: Olympia by Manet; at Olympia's neck. author: Marc Augé
p 8: Olympia by Manet; the fatal ribbon. author: Michel Leiris
p 14: Lotto's Annunciation at Recanati; the book and the hour glass. [Impressions] author: Daniele Del Giudice; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 27: Soap bubbles; the spherical rainbow. author: Michele Emmer
p 41: The sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie; the theatre of miracles. author: Lucia Corrain; photographs: Luciano Romano, Molteni-Motta
p 57: Ceramics from Konya; star spangles walls. author: Manar Hamad; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 81: Chinese votive costumes; the tailor in the sky. author: Leo Haks; photographs: Michiel Elsevier Stokmans, Thomas Schuellhammer
p 99: Baroque festivities in Naples; the art of light and fire. author: Michele Rak; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 122: The tactile values (about Cimabue, Giotto); introduction. author: Paolo Fabbri
p 124: The tactile values (about Cimabue, Giotto); the intensity of life. author: Bernard Berenson

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FMR Nov 2004 # 3

p 1: On detail: Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio; A shadow without a body. author: Giuseppe Barbieri; photographs: Antonio Quattrone
p 9: Saint Vincent polyptych; Lusitanian melancholy. [Impressions] author: Yves Hersant; photographs: José Pessao
p 31: Mnemosyne: Eugène Berman; An Italian capriccio. author: Patrick Mauriès
p 51: Camera Obscura: Bill Viola and Pontormo; The visitation revisited. author: Sophie-Isabelle Dufour; photographs: Kira Perov
p 61: Wunderkammer: Cartographic oddities; Somatopias. author: Giorgio Mangani
p 77: The great bazar: Collection hats; The woman in flower. author: Bonizza Giordani Aragno; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 99: Mapamundi: San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Naples; The sepulchre of Pedro de Toledo. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 125: Ex Libris: The nature of beauty; An aesthetics of love. author: Yves Hersant
p 128: Ex Libris: The nature of beauty; De Pulchro et Amore. author: Agostino Nifo

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FMR Jan 2005 # 4

p 1: The Virgin sewing in the Quirinale; The Virgin's needle. author: Francesco Colalucci; photographs: Rite Paesani
p 13: Archeology as photographed by Mimmo Jodice; A museum in black and white. [Impressions] author: Dominique Fernandez
p 31: The sovereign's naked leg; On regal knees. author: Sergio Bertelli
p 47: The travelling painters of Hälsingland; Rustic glories. author: Daniel Rey; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 63: Sharaku: a mystery of the floating world; An actor's passion. author: Gian Carlo Calza
p 79: Stones of the mediterranean; Mineral splendours. author: Predrag Matvejevic'
p 101: Matisse Free Jazz; The rythm of vision. authors: Eric Alliez, Jean-Claude Bonne; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 126: The iconology of the fine arts. authors: Paolo Fabbri, Cesare Ripa

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FMR Mar 2005 # 5

p 1: The loggia di Psiche at the Farnesia; Ars amandi. author: John Searman; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 23: Photographing Moses (by Michelangelo); Reflections on the seeing eye. [Impressions] author: Aurelio Amendola; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 39: Villa Lazzarovich: the Aura of Hapsburg; Mitteleuropa, once again. author: Ezio Frigerio; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 52: Villa Lazzarovich: the Aura of Hapsburg; Maximilian of Hapsburg in Trieste. author: Rosella Fabiani; photographs: Afredo Dagli Orti
p 61: The plutarch in the Malatestiana at Cesena; Classical antiquity and the hero. author: Fabrizio Lollini; photographs: Afredo Dagli Orti
p 72: The plutarch in the Malatestiana at Cesena; The parallel lives on. author: Luigi Spina; photographs: Afredo Dagli Orti
p 85: The library at the Escorial; The house of knowledge. author: Fernando Marías; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 111: Mirrors, yearnings and other images; Tricks from a double world. author: Marilena Mosco

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FMR May 2005 # 6

p 1: The Hadrianeum in Rome (Castel Sant'Angelo); The castle and the angel. author: André Chastel; photographs: Araldo De Luca
p 27: Melancholy and its attributes; Saturn's Museum. author: Jean CLair; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 55: Clemente Bandinelli and the primacy of draughtmanship; Anatomical drawings from the Uffizi. author: Chiara Rabbi-Bernard; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 67: The Jakober collection in Majorca; The little princes. author: Yannick Vu
p 85: Dürer in the Prado; The culture of the eye. author: Joseph Koerner
p 113: Diego Riviera at the hospital La Raza; A Mexican tale. author: Pino Cacucci; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti

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FMR Jul 2005 # 7

p 1: The screen of the Conquest; A Mexican epic. author: Antonio Sarabia; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 23: Carlo Crivelli; A taste of paradise. author: Bernard Aikema
p 49: Looking, very carefully. [Impressions] author: Kenro Izu; photographs: Kenro Izu
p 71: Soviet matches; Revolution, state and taste. author: Gian Piero Piretto
p 91: Ilaria's tomb; Reclining on a bed of light (funerary monument to Ilaria del Carretto by Jacopo della Quercia). author: Ermanno Krumm; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 111: Alexandre Cabanel: le rêve pompier; The secret notebooks of Cabanel. author: Gianfranco Malafarina

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FMR Sep 2005 # 8

p 1: Salsomaggiore Thermae; Art Deco at the baths. author: Alain Robbe-Grillet; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 27: Pedro de Rubiales at the Sommària; Justice and the Viceroy. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 53: Tintoretto's Virgin in the Temple; The child in the Madonna dell'Orto. [Impressions] author: Melania Mazzucco; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 71: Fragile beauty; Glass routes. author: Rocco Familiari; photographs: Massimiliano Ruta
p 89: Corot at hte Thyssen-Bornemisza; Visions and memories. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 107: The Taccuino of Giovanni de' Grassi; A fabulous bestiary. author: Grazia Recanati

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FMR Nov 2005 # 9

p 1: Bosch's Temptation of Saint Anthony; A visionary heresy. author: Laurinda Dixon; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 25: The Black Hours; The Vienna Book of Hours. author: Pascal Schandel
p 41: Dream figures; Twelve dreams and an epilogue. author: Vivian Lamarque
p 69: The Dance Macabre of Bern; Death as an ironic courtly lady. author: Alda Teodorani; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 95: The neoclassical daydreams of Felice Giani; Cupid and Psyche. author: Sonia Cavicchioli; photographs: Paolo Terzi
p 113: Lucio Fontana's Via Crucis; Between baroque and avantgarde. author: Paolo Campiglio; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara

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FMR Jan 2006 # 10

p 1: The mosaics from the House of the Faun, Pompeii; nature and history, comedy and tragedy. author: Fausto Zevi; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 27: The most beautiful paintings of the world (Antonio da Crevalcore, painter); a gallery of the heart. author: José Saramago; photographs: Paolo Terzi
p 43: The Bíblia dos Jerónimos; from Florence to Lisbon. author: Arnaldo Pinto Cardoso; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 73: 17th century Bohème; the Gypsy myth in painting. author: Francesco Porzio
p 97: The Mother-Goddess; fertility cult. author: Louis Godart; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 115: Hell in Florentine art; cursed but humorous Tuscans. author: Timothy Verdon

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FMR Mar 2006 # 11

p 1: The Salamanca retablo; history and revelation. author: Michele Rak
p 31: Mustapha's tents; the mothley army. author: Joseph Rykwert; photographs: Hadiye Cangökçe
p 49: Sacred coral; artists and workshops at Trapani. author: Enzo Tartamella; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 73: Anton Raphael Mengs, painter 1728-1779; to imitate is not to plagirize. author: Flaminio Gualdoni; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 93: Vanishing points; chambre obscure & chambre clair. author: Giuseppe Marcenaro
p 117: Bologna, 1327 (Giotto e le arti a Bologna al tempo di Bertrando del Poggetto); Bologna, an Avignon manqué. author: Giancarlo Benevolo; photographs: Lucinao Romano
p 128: Bologna, 1327 (Giotto e le arti a Bologna al tempo di Bertrando del Poggetto); the `capella magna'. author: Massimo Medica; photographs: Lucinao Romano

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FMR May 2006 # 12

p 1: The Orient and the Gulf; Domenico Morelli, orientalist painter (1823-1901). author: Luisa Martorelli; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 29: Granite and the Czar; the Hall of the 20 Columns in the Hermitage, St Petersburg. author: Anna Trofimova; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 45: Space and solitude; Leonid Berman, painter 1896-1976, and the Berman dynasty. author: Patrick Mauriès
p 59: Hausmusik, Vanitas & Co.; of music, painting and other matters. author: Pablo Lentini Riva
p 81: Antonello da Messina and Saint Jerome; culture and sainthood. author: Salvatore Tramontana
p 105: Figures of chaos; the Room of the Elements in Palazzo Firenze in Rome, frescoed by Jacopo Zucchi in 1575. author: Maria Giulia Aurigemma; photographs: Luciano Romano

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FMR Jul 2006 # 13

p 1: The House of Adinath; the Jain temple of Adinath at Ranakpur, in Rajasthan, India (1439). author: Anna Filigenzi; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 25: Maximilian in the Orient; archducal turquoiseries of Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg; artefacts in the Museo Storico del Castello Di Miramare, Trieste. authors: Gianni Guadalupi, Rosella Fabiani; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 43: The statues of czar Nicolas I; Italian neoclassical sculptures in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. author: Sergei Androsov; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 63: The flesh and the face; paintings by Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (1870-19450): white Spain, black Spain. author: Gianfranco Malafarina
p 87: The tears of the Heliades; amber: the idol and the jewel; artefacts in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Basilicata `Dinu Adamesteanu', Potenza. author: Elisabetta Franchi; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 107: Dürer's Apocalypse; dress rehearsals for an apocalypse: wood engravings inspired by the Book of Revelation, executed by Albrecht Dürer in 1498. author: Marcello Fois; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti

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FMR Sep 2006 # 14

p 1: The Czarina of the vases; the Jasper krater in the Hermitage. author: Natalia Mavrodina; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 13: Death and the little boy; Diego Rivera, painter; el sueño de la Alameda. author: Raffaele De Grada; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 45: Gaspar Berecca and the counter-reformation; the retablo in the cathedral at Astorga. authors: Manuel Arias Martínez, Miguel Gonzáles García
p 75: A Buddhist paradise; Japanese bronzes in the Museo Chiossone. author: Donatella Failla; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 97: Belardius de Perusia pinsit (painter); Bernardino di Mariotto, or fairy-tale gothic. author: Giampiero Donnini; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 119: The royal game; the chess sets in the Bargello. author: Claude Lemoine; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti

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FMR Nov 2006 # 15

p 1: The good life in Chang'an; art of the Tang dynasty in Naples. author: Lucia Caterina; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 19: All the books in the world; the libraries of Candida Höfer. author: Walter Guadagnnini; photographs: Candida Höfer
p 37: Celebrations of power; paintings from the rotonda in Rovigo. author: Franco Barbieri; photographs: Paolo Terzi
p 71: Picasso and Velásquez; Picasso and the Spanish tradition. author: Calvo Serraller
p 91: Narcissus and the mirror; Filippo Parodi, marvels of art and nature. author: Laura Magnani; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 111: Dogs in style; stories of dogs and their owners. author: Giorgio Celli; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Jan 2007 # 16

p 1: Musices Liber Primus; paintings from the Monte di Pièta, Naples. author: Denis Grenier; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 20: Musices Liber Primus; Ad Vesperas. author: Marco Mencoboni; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 31: The taste of the century; one hundred years of Van Cleef & Arpels. author: Daniela Mascetti
p 49: Spiegelspielen; Charles Matton encircled. author: Silvie Matton; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 69: Modern art `alla maniera italiana'; Via Cavour and the Scuola Romana. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 89: Ignatius' house; Loyola and his shrine. author: Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 117: A conscinetious classicism; the Marsili Aldrovandi Prize and Bologna. author: Alessia Marchi; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti

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FMR Mar 2007 # 17

p 1: In praise of Phryne; the nude & the Libertines. [Iconographia] author: Pascal Lainé
p 38: The portrait and its double; 'Prayers and Portraits, unfolding the Netherlandish Diptyc', Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (including Memling and van der Goes). [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 40: Cherubino and the women; 'Jean-Honoré Fragonard', CaixaForum, Madrid. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 42: Looking eastward; 'Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [Ephemeris] author: Umberto Re
p 44: Concerning Praxiteles; 'Praxitèle', Louvre, Paris. [Ephemeris] author: Umberto Re
p 46: Lalique as high priest; 'René Lalique, créateur d'exception. 1890-1910', Musée du Luxembourg, Paris. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Garciotto
p 48: Derain: body, colour; 'André Derain', Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. [Ephemeris] author: Umberto Re
p 49: The eye of the demiurge; Caso Mollina and other places (Lutraria Dance Hall); buildings designed by Carlo Mollino, architect. [Mappamundi] author: Fulvio Ferrari; photographs: Pino Musi
p 73: Soehnée's Capriccios; the paradox in art; Carl-Frédéric Soehnée (Söhne). [Mnemosyne] author: Patrick Mauriès; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 97: Al-Qahirah; Luca Campigotto in Egypt. [Stories of the Eye] author: Flaminio Gualdoni; photographs: Luca Campigotto
p 121: Catherine's hours; the peacock clock in the Hermitage. [Wunderkammer] author: Anna Gejko; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 133: 'Addio bambolino'; Remigi Dargallo, illustrator. [The Great Bazaar] author: Enrico Sturani
p 152: The City of Marvels; selected abstract from the book. [The Great Bazaar] author: Eduardo Mendoza
p 157: Arria Marcella. [Stories from Art] author: Théophile Gautier

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FMR May 2007 # 18

p 1: 'Mars on Earth'; Death of a knight; the funaral momument of Gaston de Foix by Agostino Busti (1483-1548), known as 'il Bambaia'. author: Maria Teresa Guadalupi; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 24: 'Mars on Earth'; Bambaia's monument to Gaston de Foix. author: Maria Teresa Fiorio; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 38: 'Damned and Accused Art'; 'Tintoretto', Museo Naciolnal del Prado, Madrid. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 40: L'affaire des loges; 'Giovanni Volpato, les loges de Raphaël et la Galerie de Palais Farnèse', Musée des Beaux Arts, Tours. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 42: Myth and Archetype; 'Giorgio de Chirico', Palazzo Zabarella, Padua. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 44: Style panthère; 'Cartier 1899-1949: O percurso de um estilo', Musee Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 46: David & N.; 'Citizens and Kings: portraits in the Age of Revolution', Royal Academie of Arts, London. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 48: Sculptor of light; 'Desiderio da Setignano; la scoperta della grazia nella scultura del Rinascimento', Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 49: Out of the limelight; Romano the 'Eccentric', the painter Girolamo Romanino from Brescia. [Iconographia] author: Francesco Frangi; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 73: The secret of things; paintings by Leonardo Cremonino. author: Elena Pontiggia
p 97: Spaces of silence; the Buddhas in Pagan, Myanmar (Burma), photographed between 1976 and 1977. author: Kosme de Barañano; photographs: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
p 121: Bolero-Spadò; Alberto Spadolini, dancer. [The Great Bazaar] author: Marco Travaglini
p 133: 'Una religiosa urbanidad'; the Patriarch at Valencia; the Royal College of Corpus Christi, Valencia. [Mappamundi] authors: Joaquín Bérchez, Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer
p 157: I'm no Ingres Odalisque. [Stories from Art] author: Jean-Paul Desprat

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FMR Jun 2007 # 19

p 1: Femme Fatale; love and death. author: Alda Teodorani
p 12: Femme Fatale; the Medusa gaze. author: Roger Caillois
p 25: Femme Fatale; figures from the myth. author: Angela Catrani
p 42: In de the shadow of Piero; Filippo Lippi: genio e passione, Prato cathedrale. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 44: James 'Athenian' Stewart; James 'Athenian' Stewart, London V&A. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 46: Simone the visionary; Simone De Magistris, un pittore visionario tra Lotto e El Greco, Caldarola, Palazzo dei Cardinali Pallotta. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 48: Persia and the rose; Perzië, Amsterdam, Hermitage. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 50: Estes the vedutista; Richard Estes, Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 52: Corot the means and the end; Camille Corot 1796-1875, dessins du Louvre, Paris, Louvre. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 53: Wolvinus & Angilbertus; the altar in Sant'Ambrogio in Milan. [Wunderkammer] author: Carlo Bertelli
p 75: 'ad instar Sancti Sepulcri'; the curch and convent at Tomar of the templars. [Mappamundi] author: Franco Cardini; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 97: Thinking architecture; Joaquín Bérchez; a scholarly photographer. [Stories of the Eye] author: Antonio Bonet Correa; photographs: Joaquín Bérchez
p 121: Rustic dreams; Usellini and the Villa Crespi at Vigevano. [Mnemosyne] author: Paolo Campoglio; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 139: The heyday of the parasol; an Italian museum (Museo dell'ombrello e del parasole at Gignese, Verbania). [The Great Bazaar] author: Frederico Poletti; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 157: The Verdict. [Stories from Art] author: Edith Warton

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FMR Aug 2007 # 20

p 1: The raft of the Medusa (a painting by Géricault); hope suspended: displacement and destiny. author: Toni Morrison
p 6: The raft of the Medusa (a painting by Géricault); the 'raft of the Medusa' or: the future of the world. author: Bruno Chenique
p 42: Ravenna felix; felix Ravenna, Ravenna, San Nicolò Complex. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 44: Adieu à monsier Stoclet; Gustave Klimt und die Maler-Companie, Vienna, Galerie Belvedere. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 46: The idea of the landscape; Claude Lorrain - the painter as draftsman: drawings from the British Museum, Washington, National Gallery of Art. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 48: Bibliotheca stupore digna; Fredrico da Montefeltro and his library, New York, Morgan Library and Museum. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 50: The photo and the mirror; Edward Hopper, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 52: Painting of detail; temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve, London, Courtauld Institute of Art. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 53: Continental baroque; Serge Roche; the bright and the matt (furniture and ornaments). [Wunderkammer] author: Patrick Mauriès; photographs: Roberto Bigano
p 75: The painter Luca Cambiaso; Cambiaso before renunciation: the frescoes in the Villa Cattaneo Imperiale. [Iconographia] author: Lauro Magnani; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 97: Yokohama Sashin; felice beato; Japan. [Stories of the Eye] author: Walter Guadagnini
p 121: Ville di Delizie and the avant-garde; villa Menafoglio Litta Panza in Varese. [Mappamundi] author: Anna Bernardina; photographs: Giorgio Colombo
p 145: The Iatalian neo-gothic; the Mazzolini Giuseppucci pharmacy. [Mnemosyne] author: Graziano Campanini; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 157: Dying away. [Stories from Art] author: Nanni Cagnone

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FMR Oct 2007 # 21

p 1: Tamar, Rebecca and Mary; behind the veil. author: Nancy Honicker
p 36: Cosmè and the Muses; Cosmè Tura e Francesco del Cossa; l'arte a Ferrara nell'età di Borso d'Este, Ferrara. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 38: The horti of Lucullus; il giardino antico da Babilonia a Roma; scienze, arte e natura, Florence, Palazzo Pitti. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 40: Botany and the art of glass making; botanical wonders; the story of the Harvard glass flowers, Corning (NY), Corning Museum of Glass. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 42: The Muse, the artist; the art of Lee Miller, London, V&A Museum. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 44: Reality's hard edges; Patinir y la invención del paisaje, Madrid, Prado. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 44: The artist as theoretician; Viviana Birolli, Milan, Abscondita. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 45: The great theatre of kingship; foreign visitors to Versailles. [Mappamundi] author: Xavier Salmon; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 73: A mad obsession with the pictorial material; the working diaries of Ferruccio Ferrazzi. [Mnemosyne] author: Gianluigi Colalucci; photographs: Rita Paesani
p 97: Ideas of nature; Lawrence Beck, photographer. [Stories of the Eye] author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Lawrence Beck
p 121: Sacred imitation; the wax busts in the Redentore in Venice. [The Great Bazaar] author: Muriel Pic; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 133: Flowers and bronze (bronze vases in China and Japan); oriental vases in the Museo Chiossone, Genoa. [Wunderkammer] author: Donatella Failla; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 158: La dernière Aldini. [Stories from Art] author: George Sand
p 161: Rome, autumn 1510. [Stories from Art] author: Flaminio Gualdoni

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FMR Dec 2007 # 22

p 1: Laughing in Tokyo; Miyatake's postcards. [Wunderkammer] authors: Edmond de Goncourt, Enrico Sturani; photographs: Rita Paesina
p 38: The sensuality of painting; the late Titian and the sensuality of painting, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 40: The Camden town nudes; Walter Sickert: the Camden town nudes, London, Courtauld Institute of Art. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 42: The poison of the fantastic; Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, I disegni del Codice Resta di Palermo, Milan, Silvana Editorale. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 44: Rembrandt and Holland; Dutch portraits; the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, The Hague, Mauritshuis. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 46: Arcimboldo, pictor ludens; Arcimboldo, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg. [Ephemeris] author: Giulia Carciotto
p 48: Fashion and style; the golden age of couture: Paris and London 1947-1957, London, V&A Museum. [Ephemeris] author: Carla Casu
p 49: Borgia and the angels; frescoes in the Valencia cathedral. [Iconographia] author: Fernando Marías
p 73: 39 cent art; pop art, sterotypes, consumer goods. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 97: Villers, Picasso and other stories; towards an autobiography. [Stories of the Eye] author: André Villers; photographs: André Villers
p 121: Bologna, 6 December 1529; the last coronation or the empire in Bologna. [Mappamundi] author: Gianni Guadalupi
p 143: Castellani, Giuliano, the antique; revivalist jewelers revisited. [The Great Bazaar] author: Daniela Mascetti
p 157: La Quinta del Sordo. [Stories from Art] author: Pascal Lainé

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FMR Jan 2008 # 23

p 1: Tintoretto unconfined; Tintoretto in Rocco. authors: Andrea Emiliani, Claudio Olivieri; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 37: Pathos and talent; José Malhoa, a Portuguese painter. author: Pascal Lainé
p 49: Panorama de Paris; Pierre Prévost and the art of panorama. [Mappamundi] author: Bernard Comment
p 71: The glass alphabet; a glass window rediscovered (Rome 1939). author: Michele Rak; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 92: Looking slowly; Gabriele Basilico and the ancient world. [Stories of the Eye] author: Flaminio Gualdoni; photographs: Gabriele Basilico
p 117: Memoirs of a wardrobe; the theatrical costumes of the Fondazione Cerratelli. [Wunderkammer] author: Paola Goretti; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 137: Solimena and Simon Magus; the sacristy of San Paolo Maggiore in Naples. author: Roberto Middione; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 153: A month in the country. [Stories from Art] author: James Lloyd Carr

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FMR Mar 2008 # 24

p 1: Ambroise Vollard. modern art dealer, and the Livre du Peintre. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 33: Ambroise Vollard. modern art dealer, and the Livre du Peintre; an ideal library: the Editions of Ambroise Vollard. author: Lucia Chimirri
p 41: The Turks in the Codex Vindobonensis 8626; in the Österreichische Nationalbibliotheek, Vienna. author: Alberto Arbasino
p 65: Codex purpureus Rossanensis - the sacred: writing and image (~1550); in the Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra, Rossana Calabro, Cosenza. author: Fabrizio Lollini
p 85: Horses with golden manes and bronze hooves; Marco Delogu and the horses of Homer. [Stories of the Eye] author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Marco Delogu
p 109: The arts of Vulcan; Some perfectly-made and pleasing objects from the collections of the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin. author: Paolo Elena Boccelatte; photographs: Roberto Bigano
p 125: To portray the morning sun; landscape in artistic literature in renaissance Italy. [Iconographia] author: Edouard Pommier
p 157: Voyage to Mont Blanc. [Stories from Art] author: François-René de Chateaubriand

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FMR May 2008 # 25

p 1: The queen and the muses; Catherine de' Medici, patroness of the arts. author: Janine Garrison
p 31: The museum which would not die; The Chapel in the Ecole des beaux arts in Paris. author: Emmanuael Schwartz; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 59: The Sistine Chapel of the Valois; Primaticcio's frescoes at Chaalis. author: Veronica Mecchia; photographs: Roberto Bigano
p 83: Myth and the nude; Lucien Clergue's 'Anticollages Paniques'. [Stories of the Eye] author: Fernando Arrabal; photographs: Lucien Clergue
p 105: Maximian and Justinian; the ivory chair at Ravenna. author: Paolo Cesaretti; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 121: The loviest thing in christendom; the Farnese collection of antique sculptures. author: Carlo Casparri; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 153: Beau Séjour. [Stories from Art] author: Pablo Lentini Riva

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FMR Jul 2008 # 26

p 1: The hand that serves the brain; Michelangelo, art and the emotions. author: Pina Ragonieri
p 45: The book and the patron; Michelangelo's Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence. author: James S. Ackerman; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 69: The Michelangelo effect; the myth of Michelangelo and modern sculpture. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 85: Inventing the truth; the fabricated images of Boyd Webb. [Stories of the Eye] author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Boyd Webb
p 101: Speak to us of beauty; on twenty drawings by Kahlil Gibran. author: Francesco Medici
p 117: A gothic tabernacle; Santa Maria della Spina in Pisa. author: Francesco Lentino; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 137: The death of Sarpedon; Euphronios' Krater (returned art from the J. Paul Getty Museum to Italy). author: Louis Godart; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 153: Sideswipe. [Stories from Art] author: Charles Willeford

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FMR Sep 2008 # 27

p 1: Verbum caro factum est; the pulpit in the cathedral at Barga. author: Pasquale Iacobone; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 27: A rugged symphony; the abbey of Conques, France. author: Jean-Paul Desprat; photographs: Thébault
p 51: Boris and Saint Ipatiev; the Goudunov gospel: a jewel from the murkiness. author: Francesco Lantini; photographs: Enrico Sarsini
p 71: Twenty steps; the cantoria delle Messe by Luca Della Robbia. author: Marco Mencoboni; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 85: Rome; a journey through te city. [Stories of the Eye] author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: George Tatge
p 107: Three hundred and thirty million gods; a journey into Indian spirituality. author: Lorenzo Pondrelli; photographs: Lorenzo Pondrelli
p 127: In the manner of a balloon; Mauro Guidi and the consolations of Utopia. author: Daniela Sovoia
p 144: In the manner of a balloon; Mauro Guidi's Cesena Nuova. author: Anna Maria Matteucci
p 157: The living portrait. [Stories from Art] author: Willem Jan Otten
p 168: Ad Hoc; Claudio Bravo.

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FMR Oct 2008 # 28

p 1: Divine visionary; Dante and Dantesque iconography. author: Armando Torno; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 31: The purloined Dante; a comedy between Imola and Paris. author: Fabrizio Lollini; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 55: Of vices and virtues; reflections on a medieval symbol (allegories in frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, by Giotto di Bondone). author: Nancy Honicker; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 73: Claustra; the faith cycle by Jackie Nickerson. [Stories of the Eye] author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Jackie Nickerson
p 97: Petros; codices from the archive of the fabric of Saint Peter in the Vatican. author: Simona Turriziani; photographs: Jackie Nickerson
p 107: The Buddha, letters and time; ancient manuscripts from Thailand. author: Claudio Cicuzza; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 129: The goldsmith from Hamburg; the duomo of Milan and a masterpiece of modern goldwork (a fontain pen). author: Flaminio Gualdoni; photographs: Daniele De Lonti
p 141: The inspiration of desire; Jacques Canonici, sculptor. author: Pascal Lainé; photographs: Sebastian Straessle
p 165: New York, 2007. [Stories from Art] author: Bernard Comment
p 176: Ad Hoc; Salvo.

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FMR Dec 2008 # 5

p 0: White Edition - Classical.
p 12: Divine (dis)proportion and (re)construction; First International Congress on Proportion in the Arts, Milan Trientale 1951. author: Anna Chiara Cimoli
p 20: The Season of Purism; Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Léger, the forerunners of 'L'Espris Nouveau'. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 34: Emily Allchurch - English artist. author: Walter Guadagnini
p 46: From Venus to Venus; notes on the end of an eternal idea. author: Marco Tonelli
p 58: Melotti - Unseen Acrobat - sculptor; Fausto Melotti (1901-1986) and Music. author: Paolo Repetto
p 76: An Italian Jeweller in the New World; Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura (1898-1978). author: Diana Scarisbrick; photographs: David Behl
p 90: Don't Say New Media!; Gazira Babeli: 'Don't say new media - say art!' ; Régine Debatty: 'Forget the new, drop the media, enjoy art.'. author: Domenico Quaranta
p 108: Richard Nonas, sculptor; details from the axcavation of Harrison Street. author: Filippo Fossati

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FMR Jan 2009 # 29

p 0: Black Edition - grand tour.
p 1: Adam and Arthur - the mosaic pavement in the transept and nave of Otranto cathedral - 'Flowery Meadow'; the original sin, Noah's ark, February,. author: Victor Schmidt; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 23: For Glory and for Mercy's Sake - Francesco de Mura (1696-1782) at the Pio Monte della Misericordia; paintings now in the Pinacoteca del Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples. author: Nicola Spinosa; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 49: Fertile Myths - the Pinakes at Loeri (now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale at Reggio Calabria); little terracotta tablets from the 5th century b.C. author: Roberta Schenegal Pileggi; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 71: Italian Epic - Risorgimento in Siena; frescos in the Sala Vittorio Emanuele II in the Palazo Pubblico in Siena. author: Marco Pierini; photographs: Andrea Lensini, Fabio Lensini
p 85: Journeying by Map - Luigi Ghirri's Atlas; part of the Atlas Series, 1974. author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Luigi Ghirra
p 109: Correggio's Famous Nights - from the Este Modena to the Dresden of Augustus III; works in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. authors: Andrea Henning, Martin Roth
p 129: Seeing the Apocalypse - the Apocalypse of Beatus de Liébana (8th century); Manuscript Vit. 14-2 in the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. author: Carla Casu
p 141: Portraits and Other Reasonings - from various sources. author: Flaminio Gualdoni

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FMR Feb 2009 # 6

p 0: White Edition - Artificer.
p 12: Nanni Valentini - sculptor; Mother Earth. author: Daniela Ferrari
p 12: The Idea of Making. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 38: Artists; photographs. author: Carla Casu
p 50: George Rousse; photographs of architectural space. author: Walter Guadagnini
p 64: Digital Artisans. author: Valentina Tanni
p 78: Piero Manzoni in Herninmg, Denmark. author: Francesca Pola
p 92: Baudrillard's Zero Degree. author: Marco Senaldi
p 110: Carlo Mollini's Leica; female photographs taken between 1936 and 1973. author: Fulvio Ferrari

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FMR Mar 2009 # 30

p 0: Black Edition - Gold.
p 23: Gold, the Sun, the Divine - mystic gold. author: Umberto Re
p 49: Ex Oriente lux - the mosaics of Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice executed between 1343 and 1354; Saint Mark's baptistry. author: Davide Benati; photographs: Alfredo Degli Orti
p 52: Ex Oriente lux - the mosaics of Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice executed between 1343 and 1354; the legend of the Saint (Mark). author: Diego Valeri; photographs: Alfredo Degli Orti
p 71: From Trousseau to Treasure - Gold from Sardinia. author: Maria Porgeu Gaias
p 85: The Entropy of the Dream - the visionary and silent theatre of Roger Ballen. author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Roger Ballan
p 109: The Black Men - the mausoleum of Maximilian I in Innsbruck; the funerary monument to Maximilian I of Hapsburg (1459-1519) in the Hofkirche in Innsbruck. author: Simone Ferrari; photographs: Aurelio Amendola
p 129: The Book of Animals - a thousand and one beasts; the Kitâb al-Hayawân codex by al-Jahiz, compiled in the 2nd quarter of the 16th century, now in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. author: Erminio Caprotti
p 141: On Light and Colour - paintings and sculpture. author: Flaminio Gualdoni

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FMR Apr 2009 # 7

p 0: White Edition - Collecting.
p 12: Globe Theatre - dust & light; a collection of collections - photographs at the Globe Theatre in Funo di Argelato. author: Alessandra Carta; photographs: Alessandra Carta
p 24: Claudia Gian Ferrari - an Italian Novecento collection. author: Carla Casu
p 42: Phil Rolla - a private collection. author: Pino Musi; photographs: Pino Musi
p 56: Lhoist Collection - a corporate collection. author: Régis Durand
p 68: The BSI collection; at the lakeside of Lugano. author: Luigi Cavadini
p 84: Mark Dion and his Wunderkammer. author: Silvia Ferrari
p 98: Tha artist has no hands. author: Nanni Menetti
p 110: Palladio and us. author: Flaminio Gualdoni

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FMR May 2009 # 31

p 0: Black Edition - tradition.
p 1: Pompous Pompiers; Art Pompier in France. author: Jean-Jacques Breton
p 23: That Golden Age of Painting; My Memories. author: Francesco Hayez; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 45: A Pagan Eden; Villa Stuck - Franz von Stuck. author: Regina Heilmann-Thon; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 65: Art of the Sea; Masterpieces inspired by the sea at Monte-Carlo. author: Patrick Piguet; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 85: Thinking Colour; colour photographs by Bernard Plossu. author: Francesco Zanot; photographs: Bernard Plossu
p 109: Mimmo Jodice's Canova. authors: John Flaxman, Oma Galliani; photographs: Mimmo Jodice
p 129: In the name of the Bath; De Balnei Puteolanis; the Codex of the Biblioteca Angelica. authors: Giulia Orofino, Carla Casetti Brach
p 141: Books, Silverware, Papier-Mâché. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 168: Nicola Sammorì.

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FMR Jun 2009 # 8

p 1: White Edition - Sin.
p 12: Jaume Plensa - artist. author: Kosme de Barañano
p 12: Larry Fink - Forbidden Pictures; in Bush's America. author: Walter Guadagnini
p 28: Femme Fatale; in the movies. author: Leonardo Gandini
p 42: James Ensor; paintings. author: Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque
p 58: Peverelli and Salome; Cesare Peverelli, drawings. authors: Flaminio Gualdoni, Michel Butor
p 70: Sin and Cinema. author: Antonio Monda
p 84: Gulgielmo Achille Cavellini - Art collector. author: Monia Marchoinni
p 96: The Day Nobody Died. authors: Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin; photographs: Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin

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FMR Jul 2009 # 32

p 0: Black issue - landscape.
p 1: The Invention of Landscape; Joachim Patinir, Antwerp (~1480/1485-1524) (in "de Vlaamse Primitieven", p.489: Joachim Patinier). author: Alejandro Vergara
p 23: Mountains and Water; Chines landscapes in prose. author: Martine Vallette-Hémery
p 45: Drawer of Views and Landscapes; Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti (1764-1831) at Versailles. author: Xavier Salmon
p 65: Massimo d'Azeglio, painter (1798-1866); memories. author: Massimo d'Azeglio
p 85: Wim Wenders; Making Films, Taking Pictures. author: Gabriele Basilico
p 109: As Rich, Ornate, Perfect and Beautiful as he possibly could; Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise. author: Pasquale Iacobone; photographs: Alfredo Dagli Orti
p 129: The Heidelberg Canzoniere; That what the world call 'Minne'. author: Peter Wapnewski
p 141: Primitive, Baroque, Paradisiacal; Bernini & Louyis XIV. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 164: Peter Blake.

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FMR Aug 2009 # 9

p 0: White Edition - Museum.
p 12: Museum. author: Antonio Paolucci
p 28: Le Grand Palais, Paris for modern art. author: Isabelle Stibbe; photographs: Raphaël Gaillarde
p 42: Le Laboratoire; a place for contemporary, creative experiments. author: David Edwards
p 58: Museum en Boîte; the museum reduced to a portable box. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 70: Showing Guernica; Picasso in Milan, 1953. author: Anna Chiara Cimoli
p 84: art/tapes/22; directed by Maria Gloria Bicocchi. author: Cosetta G. Saba
p 96: The Legacy of the Conceptual Photo. author: Adriano Altamira
p 108: Francesca Woodman - American photographer. author: Marco Pierini

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FMR Sep 2009 # 33

p 0: Black Edition - patronage.
p 1: New Athens, New Rome; Medici and Papal patronage. author: Antonio Paolucci
p 23: An American Medici; Albert Barnes: collect and educate (Renoirs, Cézannes, Matises, Picassos, Rousseaus, ....). author: Claudine Grammont
p 45: Baroque Exempla; The Farsetti collection in the Hermitage. author: Sergej Androsov; photographs: Leonard Heifets
p 63: Alberto Baglione and Saint Francis; the Baglione Chapel at Sipicciano. authors: Claudio Mancini, Stefania Profili; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 85: Mark Power - photographer; the sound of two songs - photographs from Poland. author: Walter Guadagnini; photographs: Mark Power
p 109: The Cosmos and Ornament; Native American jewelry. author: Cristina Del Mare; photographs: Luciano Pedicini
p 129: Alchemical Quintessence - Gerolamo of Cremona, illuminator XVth century - manuscript B.R.52 Biblioteca Centrale Florence; Alchemist Raimon Llull (1232-~1316) and Gerolamo da Cremona, illumination 1474/1475. author: Michela Pereira
p 141: Female Nudes, Golden Dragons, Mirrors and Lace. author: Flaminio Gualdoni
p 164: Betty Woodman.

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FMR Dec 2021 # 0

p 0: Winter Solstice 2021 No. Zero.
p 1: from the first issue of FMR in March 21, 1981; and now reborn again!. [Editorial] author: Laura Callis
p 5: Four Winds - the Last Journey; the Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Portugal. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Franco Maria Ricci
p 13: Conjectures - 'more than a mere semblance'; an unusual portrait of Dante. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Bruno Zanardi
p 19: The Long Love of Alexis and Rhoda; the Canadian painter Alex Colville - with excerpts from the correspondence between Alex Colville and Lincoln Kirstein. author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 49: Tagasode: whose Sleeves?; Japanese folding screens. author: Gian Carlo Calza
p 69: The Totonac Smile - sonrientes; a harvest of laughters, preserved in Mesoamerican pottery. author: Giorgio Antei; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 87: The Gospel according to Gaudenzio Ferrari; frescoes in the church of Santa Maria della Grazie in Varallo. author: Vittorio Sgarbi; photographs: Ghico Roli
p 105: Arcs de Cel - a collection of buildings of the sculptor and architect Xavier Corberó; Barcelona, near the mountain park Montserrat. authors: Pablo Bofill, Nicolas Véron; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 123: Auctions; 'Autumn' by Petro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - from the Hester Diamond collection. [Mignardises] author: Massimo Navoni
p 126: Bibliotheca; the limped heart of old China - book 'La Chine en miniature'. [Mignardises] author: Carlo della Grivola

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FMR Mar 2022 # 1

p 0: Vernal Equinox 2022.
p 1: Turkey, Pamuk. [Editorial] author: Laura Callis
p 6: First Glances & Last Looks; Between Brushstrokes and Dreams - Antonietta Raphaël, painter. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Dacia Maraini
p 10: Conjectures; Face to Face with a Portrait - Anthony van Dyck painted Cornelis van der Geest. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Héctor Abad Faciolince
p 20: Almanac; Futuristic Aeropainting. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Duranti
p 24: Auctions; Woman Painters and the Vagaries of the Art Market - Artemisia Gentileschi. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Simone Facchinetti
p 31: The Embers of Life; the Museum of Innocence. authors: Orhan Pamuk, Stefano Salis introduction; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 57: Lumen Cinereum - Vilhelm Hammershøi; Things that come to mind while looking at certain paintings by Hammershøi. author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 72: Lumen Cinereum - Vilhelm Hammershøi; About a Tenant of Strandgade 30, Copenhagen. author: Cristina Nuzzi
p 83: Venetian Hyroglyphics - Francesco Pianta, Venetian sculptor in the Baroque Era; Carved allegorical figures in the chapter hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. authors: Monica De Vincenti, Simone Guerriero; photographs: Piero Codato, Massimo Venchierutti
p 109: The Ultimate Delight - Winckelmann in Flesh and Blood. author: Giorgio Antei

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FMR Jun 2022 # 2

p 0: Summer Solstice 2022.
p 1: The pawn of "Charlemagne's Chess Set" - an icon of war. author: Laura Casalis
p 6: Rediscoveries - the Empathy between Painters and Brigands; paintings by Léopold Robert (1794-1835). [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Fékix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches
p 12: Conjectures - Light on the Damsel; paintings by Titian, Bartholomäus Spranger, Anton van Dyck,. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Giorgio Antei
p 20: Almanac - Small is Beautiful; Guy Ladrière's collection of carved stones. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Pietro Mercogliano
p 22: Auctions - Wild Strawberries; the painting "basket of wild strawberries" by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779). [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Navoni
p 25: Ode to the Mediterranean - the Legacy of a Happy Man; the life of Ferdinand Bac (1859-1952) and his estate "les Colombières". author: Patrick Mauriès; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 47: Racconigi - The Etruscan Dream of the House of Savoy - from Etruscan Lucumos to Kings of Italy: the Story of a Dream; Carlo Alberto the King of Piemonte and his Etruscan-style room designed by the architect Pelagio Palagi (1775-1860). author: Gabriele Reina; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 65: Vacation with the Gods - the Metamorphosis of a Castle; the castle of Sassuolo. author: Vincenzo Vandelli; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 68: Vacation with the Gods - the Grand Illusion - quadratura painters in 17th and 18th centuries; paintings in the Palace of Sassuolo by Angelo Michele Colonna, Jean Boulanger, Ottario Viviani, Pier Francesco & Carlo Cittadini. author: Angelo Mazza; photographs: Luciano Romano
p 95: The Knights of the Square Table - Chess, intelligent gaming; game and chess boards, chess pieces. author: Stefano Salis
p 111: The Knights of the Square Table - Chess, intelligent gaming; 2 sonnets. author: Jorge Luis Borges
p 111: The Knights of the Square Table - Chess, intelligent gaming; chess players on the verge of a nervous breakdown. author: Stefan Zweig
p 117: The Murmurs of Beaches; the paintings of Mozes Levy (1884-1946). author: Giovanni Mariotti

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FMR Sep 2022 # 3

p 0: Autumn Equinox 2022.
p 6: Year of Glass - showing glass. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: David Landau
p 12: The Allure of the Gods - ephemera; the collections and colours of the fashion designer Robert Capucci. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Antonio Marras
p 16: Mona Lisa Cult - a speculative phenomenon flooding the market - auctions; the different versions of La Gioconda. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Simone Facchinetti
p 24: An ephemeral Collection - bibliophilia; two articles by Franco Maria Ricci - éphémère -. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Pietro Mercogliano
p 27: House of Shade and Rainfall - sublime shadow; the Barcelone Umbracle. author: Oscar Tusquets Blanca; photographs: Raphael Vargas
p 41: From Mt. Olympus to Nirvana - lost horizons; Buddha and Gandhara rediscoverd - Aléxandros - the Greek Grandhara - Buddha human aspect. author: Renzo Freschi; photographs: Giovanni Ricci Novara
p 67: From Tuscany to Siam - Galileo and the King of Siam; the palace of the throne, designed by Annibale Rigotti. author: Neungreudee Lohapon; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 82: From Tuscany to Siam - Galileo and the King of Siam; Galileo Chini - Siam and back again. author: Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 91: Sea, Sand, and Flame - Blaschka glass; fleeting essence of the sea. author: William Warmus; photographs: Guido Mocafico
p 99: Sea, Sand, and Flame - Blaschka glass; game of mirrors. author: Guido Mocafico; photographs: Guido Mocafico
p 106: Sea, Sand, and Flame - Blaschka glass; a sea of glass from central Europe. author: Emmanuel G. Reynaud; photographs: Guido Mocafico
p 110: Riding Seaward on the Waves - Mystery! Unsolvable Queries and Siren Songs; what song did the Sirens sing?. author: Maurizio Bettini

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FMR Dec 2022 # 4

p 0: Winter Solstice 2022.
p 8: The Light and Texture of Memory - Emotions; Photographic work of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Orhan Pamuk
p 16: A Czarina's Parting Gift - Auctions; Hôtel Lambert, une collection princière. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Navoni
p 18: A Total Artwork Writ Small - Bibliophilia; Die Nibelungen in 16 pages for kids by the publisher Carl Otto Czeschka 1909. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Stefano Stalis
p 25: The Cupid Seller - Two Conoisseurs in Love; Jeanne Bécu or Madame du Barry - the paintings by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun & Joseph-Marie Vien. author: Benedetta Craveri
p 33: The Cupid Seller - Two Conoisseurs in Love; Jeanne Bécu or Madame du Barry - Sunset of a Geisha. author: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
p 39: Somber and Solemn - El Escorial and the tombs of Charles V and Philip II; kneeling for all eternity. author: António Filipe Pimentel; photographs: Giovanni Ricci-Novara
p 59: Somber and Solemn - El Escorial and the tombs of Charles V and Philip II; Austere and Unadorned - wanderings in Spain (1843). author: Théophile Gautier; photographs: Giovanni Ricci-Novara
p 65: The Manila Manuscript; the story of the Boxer codex's narrow escape - collection Charles Boxer. author: Giorgio Antei
p 91: Portrait of a Racehorse - George Stubbs, equine Limner. author: Andrew Graham-Dixon
p 101: Portrait of a Racehorse - Geroge Stubbs, equine Limner; Equine Panic - from St Mawr (1925). author: D.H. Lawrence
p 113: Sparks, Ripples and molten Glass - Vittorio Zecchin: the Glassmaker's Paintbrush. author: Giorgio Villani

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FMR Mar 2023 # 5

p 0: Vernal Equinox.
p 6: Mr. PA goes to the museum; Giovanni Paolo Panini's views of Rome - a kaleidoscope. author: Orhan Pamuk
p 14: Imaginary Galleries; a reprint - Giovanni Paolo Panini. author: Gianni Guadalupi
p 16: Conjectures - The Moon snows, the Sphinx glows. author: Gloria Fossi
p 22: Auction - Sleepers; works from Rembrandt, Sebastiano Ricci, Andrea Pozzo. author: Simone Facchinetti
p 27: the Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani and his Neo-Andean Baroque buildings; a visionary architect from the rooftop of the world. author: Marco Paladines Valarezo; photographs: Florencia Blanco, Tatewaki Nio, Marco Paladines, Yuri Segalerba, Afredo Zeballos
p 49: The Garden of Lucian Freud; plant portraits. author: Giovanni Aloi
p 67: The Garden of Lucian Freud; an essay - Lo, the humble Tamarisk. author: Stefano Mancuso
p 69: The Tables of Cesars and Cardinals; a tour of magnificent late 16th century tables inlaid with marble, jasper, lapis lazuli and other semiprecious stones. author: Alvar González-Palacios
p 89: Lighter than Air - pioneering lighter-than-air aviators; pictures of late 18th century aerostatic balloons. author: Donald Campbell
p 112: Lighter than Air - pioneering lighter-than-air aviators; poetic balloons. authors: Barnaba Fornasetti, Stefano Salis
p 113: Other People Homes - the mismatched shoes of Silvestro Lega; an account of the life of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega. author: Giovanni Mariotti

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FMR Jun 2023 # 6

p 0: Summer Solstice.
p 6: Mr. PA goes to the museum - my suit is red; portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga by Goya and other paintings of his father, mother, sister and brother all by Goya 1787-1788. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Orhan Pamuk
p 14: Auctions - the library of baron Pierre de Crombrugghe including the first French cookbook printed in Lyon 1495 - onsold; written by Guillaume Tirel alias Taillevent, chef to 3 kings. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Navoni
p 16: Ephemera - enigmatic and unremembered; the paintings of Ugo Celada da Virgilio - an exhibition in the Labirinto della Masone. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Cristian Valenti
p 23: Domus Seraphiniana - the Roman home of Luigi Serafini; home sweet metamorphic home. author: Giorgio Villani; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 46: Domus Seraphiniana - the Roman home of Luigi Serafini; the Codex Seraphinianus. authors: Justin Taylor, Laurel Saint Pierre; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 48: Grand tourism in a coach and six - Eastward to Rome; intaglios & zolfi (casts). author: Nick Foulkes; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 60: Grand tourism in a coach and six - have landscapes, will travel; portraits of Richard Milles & John Wodehouse (Pompeo Baton), the Tribune of the Uffizi (Johann Zafani), Hubert Roberts & selfportrait (Ëlisabeth Vigée Lebrun). author: Fernando Mazzocca; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 68: Grand tourism in a coach and six; the dreams of the writer, musician and painter E.T.A. Hoffmann. author: Pietro Mercogliano; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 71: Dream weaver of the Andes - the Penelope of el Dorado; Olga de Amaral, born in Bogotá. author: Georgio Antei; photographs: Diego Amaral Ceballos
p 91: Lang Shih-Ning - born in 1688 and baptized as Giuseppe Castiglione; painter - died in Beijing in the rank of Mandarin. author: Giuseppe Maino
p 115: Provence, the sea and the soil - music for the hurdy-gurdy; the tryptich of Provence: the Burning Bush of Nicholas Froment. author: Gabriele Reina
p 125: Provence, the sea and the soil - music for the hurdy-gurdy; the man-eating dragon of the Rhône valley. author: Giovanni Marotti

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FMR Sep 2023 # 7

p 0: Autumn Equinox.
p 6: Mr. PA goes to the museum - hidden cards; Cézanne's Card Players in the Metropolitan Museum or Art. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Orhan Pamuk
p 14: Auctions - the art of raising the level. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Simone Facchinetti
p 20: Image and Imagination - excerpts from Six Memos; Italo Calvino 1923-2023. [Ephemeris] author: Italo Calvino
p 23: Transpacific Overture - the rising sun and the sunset area; Japan and 16th and 17th century visitors - Nanban art. author: Hwee Lie Bléhaut
p 40: Transpacific Overture - east to Acapulco; Nanban folding screens. author: Rodrigo Rivero Lake
p 53: The Glanze of the Lord - the last kiss of love; the last great love of Lord Byron - Ravenna 1819. author: Vincenzo Patanè
p 65: Daring Geometries in Murano - Carlo Scarpa: breaking the mold; glassware - masterpieces in glass. author: Marino Barovier; photographs: Elizabeth Lamark
p 81: Alchemy and Transfiguration - Emanuele Cavalli: solemn simplicity; paintings. author: Fabio Benzi; photographs: Riccardo Ragazzi
p 92: Alchemy and Transfiguration - Emanuele Cavalli: solemn simplicity; paintings. author: Catarina Napoleone; photographs: Riccardo Ragazzi
p 100: The Museum of Works and Days - the collections of Ettore Guatelli; constellations of everyday objects. author: Roberto Tassi; photographs: Mauro Davoli
p 113: Catwalk of the Quick and the Death - Dance Macabre; the frescoes painted by the Master of the Death in the Church of St Mary of the Rocks, Beram, Istria around 1470 - the Dance of Death. author: Latica Tomasic Kickert

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FMR Dec 2023 # 8

p 0: Winter Solstice.
p 6: Of Sand and Clouds - sculptures of sand, abandoned to the desert winds. [Ephemeris] author: Giovanni Mariotti
p 12: Conjectures - the polychrome altar and the unpainted saint; the statue of St Roch in the Annunciata Church in Florence. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Giorgio Antei
p 20: Auctions - a sleeping Martyr in St Louis - St Sebastion attributed to Laurent de La Hyre; but now attributed to Peter Paul Rubens. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Navoni
p 23: Natural Magic - to dwell in the center of a stone; mineral formations - the collection of Callois (1913-1978) now in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. authors: Roger Caillois, Pietro Mercogliano; photographs: François Farges, Massimo Listri
p 42: Natural Magic - to dwell in the center of a stone; Italian collections. authors: Vittorio Sgarbi, Detlef Heikamp; photographs: François Farges, Massimo Listri
p 53: The Slipper-Master's Peacable Kingdom; the painter Morris Hirschfield (1872-1946). author: Richard Meyer with text by William Saroyan (1974)
p 75: Landscapes Glimsed in a Dream; Orhan Pamuk writing maps and uttering images - sketches with text. author: Stefano Salis with text from Orhan Pamuk's Notebooks; photographs: Emre Dörter
p 99: The technicolor marble of Sicily - King Solomon's columns - the marble insets in the antependiums; the church of the Immaculate Conception in Palermo - Giovan Battista Firrera, Nicastro Di Giovanni, Domenco Magrì, Filippo Dedia. author: Giorgio Villani; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 119: Gems of the Brigantine Dynasty of Lisbon (1730-1870) - the diamond as big as the Lisbon Ritz; an exhibition in the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda. author: Rui Galopim de Carvalho; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Mar 2024 # 9

p 0: Vernal Equinox.
p 6: Mr. PA goes to the Museum; Met bat met by Mr PA. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Orhan Pamuk
p 14: Auctions: It's raining Rembrandts. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Simone Facchinetti
p 20: Ephemera - a Genoese returns; Opus in Black - the palazzo ducale in Parma, ancient home to the Riccis. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Pietro Mercogliano
p 23: Ephemera - a labyrinth of flies; Musica Depicta is the title of the Spring exhibition. author: Sylvia Ferino
p 29: A botanist at the Prado; painted gardens. author: Eduardo Barba Gómez
p 47: A contested paradise; an electric kool-aid bus trip to the Mexican monastry of the Transfiguracíon in Malinalco. authors: Giorgio Antei, Maria Dorothea Gonçalves; photographs: Juan Carlos Barbero
p 65: Hypercactaceous in paintings; porcupines of the plant kingdom - paintings by the Korean artis Lee Kwang-Ho. author: Giovanni Aloi
p 79: An alchemistic promenade; The transmutation in the garden - Villa Durazzo Pallavicini. authors: Amerigo Cassarini, Antonio di San Pietro; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 99: Tutti Frutti; the garlanded loggia at Villa Farnesina - The vegan vaulted ceiling. authors: Marina Warner, Lucia Tongiorno Tomasi; photographs: Araldo De Luca, Sergi Ruschena
p 117: A Linnaean hall of fame; the trading cards of the botanists. author: Donatella Biagi Maino

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FMR Jun 2024 # 10

p 0: Summer Solstice.
p 6: Symbolist striptease; Salome's dance for king Herod. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
p 13: Thw homesick eye; Nostalgia, modernità di un sentimento dal rinascimento al contemporeano, palazzo Ducale, Genoa. [Ephemeris] author: Matteo Fochessati
p 18: Mood Indigo; bleu gold, the art and science of indigo. [Ephemeris] author: Antony Shugaar
p 23: The discrete charm of the erzatz - buxus; Arte e Facismo, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporeana, Rovereto,. [Ephemeris] author: Stefano Salis
p 34: Auctions - Have paintbrush, will travel; Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun - portraits. author: Massimo Navoni
p 37: Bowl cut, Lennon glasses, and cats, cats, cats; the happy Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita - painter end 19th century. author: Guiseppe Scaraffia
p 54: My first contact with the world of artists; posing for Foujita. author: Kiki de Montparnasse
p 55: A Danube secession in Mexico City; eagle, serpent, Magyar, Aztec - Géza Maróti - sculpture, architecture. author: Giorgio Antei; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 65: Géza Maróti's Mosaic of Empires; works in Mexico. author: Mónika Szente-Varga; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 75: The ivories of Salerno; the greatest story ever carved - the Old and New Testaments. author: Francesca Dell'Acqua; photographs: Robert Gigano, Massimiliano Sampaolesi
p 97: Legend of the Marmore falls - unnatural wonder. author: Attilo Brilli
p 110: The Marmore Falls; extract from La Caduta del Velino nella Nera. author: Francesca Carrara
p 113: Cha-Ching - childhood friends; a penny bank for saving small change. author: Giovanni Mariotti; photographs: Mauro Davoli

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FMR Sep 2024 # 11

p 0: Autumn Equinox.
p 3: The meeting of grand minds: FMR and Portugal; The collection of Franco Maria Ricci in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon, Portugal. [Exhibitions] author: António Filipe Pimentel
p 10: The love you never had; Bertozzi & Casoni - not what it seems. [Ephemeris] author: Tiziano Scarpa
p 15: Auctions - What she's worth; the Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614). author: Simone Facchinetti
p 21: Dazzling as the Sicilian sun - as the peacock struts; the Dolce & Gabbana exhibition 'from the hart to the hands'. author: Pietro Mercogliano; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 36: Dazzling as the Sicilian sun - beauty is craft, craft is beauty; the Dolce & Gabbana exhibition 'from the hart to the hands'. author: Franco Cologni; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 37: The Chaplins of Tuscany - an artist taught by the land; the French painter Élisabeth Chaplin. author: Cristina Nuzzi
p 53: Xanadu on the sunset sea - Julia Morgan, architect to Citizen Kane; architect for William R. Hearst. author: Antony Shugaar; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 67: Branding, renaissance style - advertisements for herself; the life and works of the painter Sofinisba Anguissola. author: Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
p 83: Serpents and dragonflies - juweler of the natural world; the works of René Lalique. author: Luísa Sampaio
p 96: Serpents and dragonflies - des bijoux - à propos de M. René Lalique (1900); the works of René Lalique. author: Gustave Geffroy
p 99: In dreams - exiles from the real; the surrealist painter Remedios Varo. author: Rafael Barajas Durán
p 117: Realpolitik at the altar - marriage, Bourbon style; King Philip V of Spain. author: Giorgio Antei

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FMR Dec 2024 # 12

p 0: Winter Solstice.
p 6: Metamorphosis of a masterpiece - Parmigianino: the Vison of St. Jerome; after a delicate, decade long restoration exhibited in the National Gallery of London. [Exhibitions] authors: Gabriele Finaldi, Nicolò Rossi
p 10: Heaven is a place on Earth - Corregio's frescoes in the cupola of St. John the Evangelist in Parma. [Exhibitions] author: Maria Christina Chiusa; photographs: Lucio Rossi
p 16: Auctions: Titian at a London bus stop; Titian's painting - Rest on the flight into Egypt. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Navoni
p 19: Gotham Deco New York; Art Deco in the architecture of tall buildings in New York but also in many other object, large and small. author: Anthony W. Robins; photographs: Roberto Bigano
p 49: Labor of Love - paintings in the round from Botticelli to Michelangelo - birth trays. author: Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
p 71: The serpent and eagle blacklist - Triple Tiger Trouble; the Codex Cospi - an Aztec manuscript at the University of Bologna. author: Giorgio Antei
p 87: Divine Dioramas - a meteor in the Sicilian sky; the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo. author: Giorgio Villani; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 109: A tale as old as time; artifacts from Pangaea. author: Giovanni Mariotti; photographs: Leo Torri, Guido Fuà

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FMR Mar 2025 # 13

p 0: Vernal Equinox.
p 6: Luigi Serafini: madcappery and genius; Codex Seraphinianus, spring exhibition in FMR Masone Labyrinth. [Ephemeris] author: Pietro Mercogliano
p 12: Sweertsmania - Roman years of the Flemish painter Michael Sweerts; auction market. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Simone Facchinetti
p 19: Modern Baroque - how the queen of Sheba came to Paris; the Catelan painter Josep Maria Sert - the 1924 decorations of the Hôtel de Wendel in Paris. author: Giorgio Villani; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 41: Crystals, castles, seas and stars - the multifaceted visions of Wenzel Hablik (1881-1934). author: Ezio Godoli
p 60: When knighthood was in flower - what the periwinkle knows; the painting 'Young knight in a landscape' by Vittorio Carpaccio (ca.1505). author: Eduardo Barba Gómez
p 73: Portrait of Fernando Botero as a young man - Maestro at large. author: Giorgio Antei
p 91: His terrible swift brush - a dream remembered; the Atlanta Cyclorama 1886 - a 360° painting of the Battle of Atlanta. author: Amy Durrell; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 111: Notes from underground - the changing tastes of the Eternal City; Guiseppe Barberi (Rome, 1746-1809) - the ornamentation of the dining room of Palazzo Altieri in Oriolo Romano. author: Catarina Napoleone; photographs: Massimo Listri

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FMR Jun 2025 # 14

p 0: Summer Solstice.
p 3: Paolo Veronese at el Prado Serenissimo. author: Miguel Falomir Faus
p 10: The long, winding road to the Labyrinth - an anniversary; masone labyrinth - a plural dream, why a labyrinth? Borges, the labyrinth of dreams, the form of the labyrinth, the buildings. [Hors d'Œuvres] authors: Franco Maria Ricci, June 2015
p 20: Hermetically Yours - Infatuations; the marble bas-reliefs, ca. 1455, by Agostino di Duccio with Mercury, Cancer, the Moon in the 'Chapel of the Planets' in the Rimini cathedral. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Rosita Copioli
p 24: Auctions - A face in the window - Portrait du Docteur Boucard, 1928, by Tamara de Lempicka. [Hors d'Œuvres] author: Massimo Navoni
p 28: The intuition of a destiny - the exposition 'Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)' at the Museo del Prado; the collection made by Diego Velázquez for the Spanish Crown 1649. [Exhibitions] author: Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo
p 41: Oaxaca: the Power and the Glory - Dominican Mixteca; Neo-Hispanic baroque with fine dining - diary of an unfinished journey, October 2019. author: Giorgio Antei; photographs: Massimo Listri
p 75: The simple luxury of daily bread - goddesses of the hearth - Sardinian bread. author: Stefano Salis; photographs: Roberto Bigano
p 89: His crimson eminence - the treasure house of Richelieu. author: Cristina Nuzzi
p 113: Emperor Trajan's dream - no country for old men; Trajan's great arch in Benevento. author: Maurizio Bettini; photographs: Marco Pedicini

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