FMR No. 16

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Dedication” – Venus on the Catwalk
by Giovanni Mariotti

“Conjectures” – A Face in the Crowd
by Gloria Fossi

“Auctions” – A Season of Records
by Massimo Navoni

SUNDIALS AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE SKY
by Stefano Salis
with a reading by Marco Ramperti
Pietro Portaluppi’s collection of antique sundials, now housed at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, presented in a magnificent display.

GUSTAV KLIMT AND THE UNKNOWN PRINCE
by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
A conjecture as to the person depicted in a little-known work by Gustav Klimt interwoven with the motif of the “Black model of European painting”.

MARK THE MUSIC
by Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo and Cristina Farnetti
with a reading by Baldassarre Castiglione
Some of the musician-painters of the Renaissance are the perfect example of the close ties between the arts in this historical period.

SERENDIPITY AT OTRANTO
by Antonio Pepe
photography by Marco e Luciano Pedicini
The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.

WHITE WINDS AND WHITE WOODS
by Carl-Johan Olsson
In his landscape paintings, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjæstad’s interpretation of Scandinavian nature proves at once realistic and imbued with late-Romantic poetry.