Is there a secret language hidden in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch still-life flower paintings? Although mostly rejected by modern scholarship, this idea is so beguiling that it refuses to go away… From the symbolic to the mundane, double meanings abound in these bouquets| The World Of Interiors
In the 1780s, at his Umbrian villa, a young cavaliere blew his fortune on booze and betting – and a cast of eye-fooling painted characters. Marella Caracciolo Chia finds beauty in bankruptcy| The World Of Interiors
The history of the medium has long been rooted in church architecture; now, modern makers are diffracting its variegated possibilities| The World Of Interiors