There is no train in “Monaco • Monte-Carlo.” The railway ad instead pictures a woman, poised at the shore’s edge. Encircled in rings of carmine- and blush-tinged blossoms, she looks up ...

"(Alphonse) Mucha is well known as a flag-bearer of Art Nouveau. But actually he became so unintentionally and he didn't like it ," Tomoko Sato, curator at Mucha Foundation, said. Ms Sato co ...