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A QUARTERLY PRINT REVIEW OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORKS OF ART FROM EUROPE'S
LEADING OLD MASTERS GALLERIES With feature articles on connoisseurship, best addresses, manners, morals and Italia segreta.
Four issues per year + our Grand Tour travel supplement $275.00 Printed in Washington DC. Our focus is upon the rarest, most unusual works of art from the leading Old Masters galleries in Europe. We also feature essays on great works known and lesser-known that have transcended the centuries . The founder and publisher of this journal was a long-time contributor to the Wall Street Journal Europe and to the International Herald Tribune, as well as special counselor to a princely art collecting family based in Vienna and Vaduz. Our editorial advisor is the former editor-in-chief of FMR--Franco Maria Ricci--once Italy's most prestigious art magazine, and today director-curator of one of the largest collections of Old Masters paintings in Italy. Our research is done on site in Europe. On the cover, right: A most extraordinary work, the Chiaramonte Bordonato Caravel, a 17th century masterpiece done almost entirely in rare Sicilian Trapani coral, with sails in silver, by one of the great craftsmen of Sicilian coral, Ippolito Ciotta. The Caravel was commissioned by the now-extinct Chiaramonte noble family of Sicily in 1680. Offered by Altomani & Sons, Milan
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