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The article focuses on the painting by Louis-Jean Desprez which showed the solemn Benediction pronounced by the Supreme Pontiff from the loggia in Vatican City. It depicts the moment when the Pope, before withdrawing, rose once more on the sedia gestatoria and spread his arms wide in affectionate greeting to the crowd. It displays men in ordinary clothes without their cloaks and from the plunging line of the shadows, revealed that it was done between midday and one o'clock.

The article discusses the life and works of Italian painter Pier Francesco Mola. Mola was the son of an outstanding civil and military architect Giovanni Battista Mola. According to the author, Mola's "Archimedes" painting was one of his famous work which was done between 1635-1636 after his return from Venice and Bologna and was inspired from the works of Titian. He did not have sufficient courage to influence his generation, rather, his ability depends on his assimilation of influences.

The article provides information on the portrait of Russia's Princess Catherine of Holstein-Beck and her family by Angelica Kauffman. It is a large painting with four life-size figures of the princess, her two children and her son-in law along with the marble bust of her father. The heads were completed for the agreed amount of 800 sequins and were included in the studio book of Kauffman that is displayed at the Royal Academy Library in London.