Saturday, September 12th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence What can a handprint on a cave wall tell us about being human? And what connects the earliest images made tens of thousands of years ago to the art of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci? In this special conversation, bestselling author and former FBI agent Joe Navarro joins Paola to explore an unexpected idea: that art has always helped prepare us for life. Beginning with the astonishing...

Saturday, September 5th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence To open the new season of Studiolo, please join me for a personal journey through five paintings by one of my favorite artists, Domenico Ghirlandaio. Few painters bring Renaissance Florence to life quite like Ghirlandaio. His frescoes and portraits are filled with exquisitely dressed Florentines, magnificent interiors, familiar streets, intimate gestures, and wonderfully observed faces. Look...

Saturday, June 6th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence Leon Battista Alberti, the prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant, was the author of De pictura ( “On Painting” ), a treatise composed first in Latin in 1435, then published in 1450. It is one of his three treatises on art; the other two are De statua and De re aedificatoria – the three would form the Renaissance concept for the fine arts: painting, sculpture, and...