By contrast, one of the best parts of the Wrightsman Galleries is a nonperiod room offering a display of Sèvres ceramics, including 10 small pieces of wood furniture decorated with vividly colored ceramic tiles, plaques and panels.

Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.

Gabriele D’Annunzio, a priapic, drug-addicted poet, war hero, military adventurer and man about town, was a mesmeric figure who encouraged triumphalism in Italy’s nationalist right-wingers.

[T]he jolly, broad, fooliſh, humorous, half-laughing, half-crying, baby-face of the Major extorted peals of laughter from all who were preſent.