The Monuments Men: the guardian angels of art
What does a Caravaggio’s portrait and an oil by Kokoshka have in common? And a bust by Rodin with a Veronese’s Virgin with Child? What ties a painting by Emil Nolde to a Memling’s Flemish canvas? [...]
When ART becomes FASHION
NY Fashion Week is almost over, soon catwalks will move to London, spring is coming… could we choose a better day to talk about fashion? It seems that for this S/S season, stylists have chosen to [...]
The splendour of silver: the vermeil technique
During the eighteenth century it was conceived a metallurgical technique capable of making silver immutable and even more shiny. This process, called vermeil, is still used today for the [...]