Giovanni Ponti, known as Gio Ponti, was one of the most influential Italian designers of the twentieth century.

Nicolas Poussin was a French artist who trained for a short period in Paris but felt drawn to Italian art more than the art of his own country.

Saint Filippo Neri (1515–95) was a Florentine-born clergyman who worked as a lay preacher ministering to the poor and underprivileged long before he took holy orders in 155

The early nineteenth century witnessed a revival of the seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish tradition of trompe l’oeil paintings, exemplified in France by Louis-Léopold Boilly and in Italy by the lesser-known…

As his name suggests, Claude Gellé Le Lorrain was born in the duchy of Lorraine in France, however he spent nearly his entire career in Italy

Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, is best known for his detailed paintings of Venice.

In 1994, a rare watermark album assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by Canon Ludwig von Büllingen (1771–1848), entered the collection of the N

Many viewers of the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster Troy were disappointed to see its erasure of one of the great love stories to come down to us from antiq­uity

Annie Louisa Swynnerton (née Robinson 1844–1933) studied at the Manchester School of Art before travelling abroad to Paris in 1877, where she studied at the Académie Jul

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

The chief protagonists in the scene on the front of this pelike, or two-handled jar, are named by inscription as Telamon and Andromache, the Amazon queen.

A collaboration between Cini Boeri and Tomu Katayanagi for Italian manufacturer Fiam, the Ghost, armchair marked an important breakthrough in the manufacture of glass furniture and is an icon of…

Lella and Massimo Vignelli together had diverse and prolific careers as both designers and architects.

An icon of light, modern and informal seating, the Beanbag has arguably become one of the most recognisable expressions of Italian style and design.