The book discusses some thirty Italian Renaissance domestic paintings from the Viennese collection of Count Karol Lanckoroñski (1848-1933), which since 1994 have belonged to the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków. The majority of them depict mythological subjects and scenes from Greek and Roman history; they once served as decorations on the walls of nuptial chambers...

Quo vadis? di Henryk Sienkiewicz, una delle opere più conosciute della letteratura mondiale, fu emblematicamente evocato da papa Giovanni Paolo II nell'omelia di apertura del suo pontificato, il 22 X 1978: "Secondo un'antica tradizione (che ha trovato anche una sua magnifica espressione letteraria in un romanzo di Henryk Sienkiewicz), durante la persecuzione di Nerone, Pietro voleva abbandonare Roma. Ma il Signore è intervenuto: gli è andato ...

The book deals with a paper reconstruction of Pliny the Younger's (c. AD 61-112) villa near Ostia, some twenty kilometres from Rome. This unique work was created in Rome in the years 1777-78 by a young Pole, Count Stanis³aw K. Potocki (1755-1821) in cooperation with Giuseppe Manocchi and other outstanding artists of the time. The work, originally in the Potocki collection in Wilanów, is today housed in the iconographic collection of the National ...