A series of individualised, characterful heads range from sensitive and apparently faithful portraits to idealised faces created for devotional paintings, such as Federico Barocci’s The Head of ...

She uses archives, Renaissance paintings and a car she drives across the Italian countryside. Her passion isn’t just cultural. She says our global food supply may well be at stake.

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...