Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734)

This sketch by Sebastiano Ricci evokes one of the Venetian painter's most celebrated commissions: The Communion of the Apostles. A major discovery, as the original was lost in the 19th century.

La Masone—a neoclassical-style building standing in a star-shaped bamboo maze not far from Parma, Italy—is both a museum and the work of an outstanding publisher, bibliophile and collector: Franco Maria Ricci.

In 1963, this graphic designer founded the Franco Maria Ricci publishing house, and, in 1982, the magazine FMR, which merged with the group Art'é. He collaborated with Jorge Luis Borges, André Chastel and Umberto Eco. His collection of 500 works (17th/20th centuries) and his library are kept in the Masone labyrinth.

Italian prosecutors have decided to drop charges against three people suspected of being involved in the 1997 theft of Portrait of a Lady, valued at $66 million, and taken from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in northern Italy. It will likely remain a cold case. (Arts Culture & Style)

Ten years to the day after Cyril Duval's first sale in La Flèche, in the Pays de Loire region, the auction house will inaugurate its new premises in Avenue de Verdun with the sale of this painting attributed to Giaquinto.

Since Muriel Mayette's departure, he has been acting in the interim as director of the famous villa, the French Academy in Rome. A return to its roots. 

Perfume bottles recount a wealth of many-hued stories. Here are a few of them.

A only few grams ancapsulates the emancipation of women.

The visionary architect was behind a unique industrial project within a remarkable site that continues to evolve.

The elegance and delicacy of neoclassical painter Jacques Stella's art united in a painted slate some 30 cm/11.8 in high: a tour de force!