Switzerland Segreta
Six Centuries of Swiss Masterpieces and Masterminds
220pp ​USD 250.00.   ISBN in early January 2026

Few know the real secret wealth of Switzerland--that of a profound history of Old Masters masterpieces in painting, architecture and sculpture.  This beautifully illustrated, photographed and sumptuously bound book printed on high quality Italian papers, features the finest Anglo-American and European scholarship on the Late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Swiss 19th century and the Early Modern periods of art in Switzerland so otherwise little known outside the country.   The subjects covered in this work include: Serodine: The Swiss Rembrandt; The Great Stucco Artists of the Ticino; Paolo Pagani and the Swiss-Italian Baroque; The Brilliance of Swiss Stained Glass; Basel and the Northern Renaissance; The Füssli; Albrecht Dürer in Switzerland and Böcklin, among several other topics.   

The work is prefaced with a beautiful Introduction on the history of early Switzerland from the founding of the Eidgenossenschaft in the 13th century through the young country's tense relations with it surrounding imperial neighbors, and from the Napoleonic era to the First World War.  This introduction underscores two unique phenomena in the country's rise to cultural and technological wealth and power: first, the cantonal-imperial Catholic-Calvinist competitive legacy of aristocratic patronage particularly in centers like Basel, Geneva, Zurich and St. Gallen; secondly, the extraordinary story of the early century-by-century development of Swiss excellence in engineering technologies, a phenomenon that helped to secure the country's vital geostrategic importance to compliment its enviable independence.