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"Shuddering awe is mankind's noblest part"
--Oswald Spengler A QUARTERLY PRINT REVIEW OF THE BEST SELECTIONS FROM THE FINEST OLD MASTERS GALLERIES IN ITALY AND EUROPE Featuring essays on known and unknown historic masterpieces, on connoisseurship, interviews with rara avis-type collectors and thinkers, as well as all that concerns le bon ton, le beau geste and Italia segreta. Four issues per year + our Et In Arcadia (Grand Tour) travel supplement $275.00. Printed and distributed in the USA. ISSN: 3070-2283 (online) ISSN: 3070-2291 (print)
The purpose of this publication is to rebuke the Decline-and-Fall mentality pervasive in our late, great Western civilization and to protect and promote all that has transcended the centuries and enthralls us still. We believe that a work of art is either a masterpiece or it is not, and that's it. The founder of this publication is a Yank, born and bred in Grosse Pointe Farms; a former resident of Manhattan, Los Angeles, Vienna, Cairo, London and the beautiful Balkans; a long-time contributor to The Wall Street Journal Europe (and other print press including The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Affairs) and for a brief and magical time special counselor to a princely art collecting family of fabled name in Mitteleuropa. The editorial advisor to Old Masters International is the former editor-in-chief of FMR--Franco Maria Ricci--once Italy's most brainy and beautiful art magazine, now director-curator of one of the largest collections of Old Masters paintings in Italy; a multi-lingual scholar and author, as well as an internationally acclaimed expert on heraldry and the philological origins of heraldic symbolism. Cover art: The Polittico di San Martino di Butinone e Zenale, Treviglio, Basilica di San Martino e Santa Maria Assunta 1485-1491
Upper corner, 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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