In the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the figure of the fool had a firm place in society and was omnipresent in art. The fool embodied the...

In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi...

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an...