Deconstructing the mysterious life and work of the great Renaissance polymath

Throughout history, the “workings of money have rarely been understood”, says Stephen Pimentel. The Medici of Florence, the family that ruled the city and, later, Tuscany for most of the period from 1

Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman

Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr

Giugiaro shaped cameras for Nikon over a 15-year period. The F3 arrived in 1979, his first, and Nikon’s third professional single-lens reflex camera body. Each subsequent model featured rounded forms