When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...

In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

The world of the Baroque artist / Nigel Llewellyn -- Centres of Diplomatic Power, c. 1700 / Nigel Llewellyn -- Potosí : the silver mountain / Majorie Trusted -- The portrayal of absolutism / Nigel ...

Except among some specialist art historians, Simone Peterzano is generally known only as the teacher of Caravaggio: the notable, great master of Baroque painting. Beyond that, he tends to be dismissed ...

Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...

Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. After a century of religious wars, pro-Vatican Baroque art featured big canvases, dramatic statues, exuberant ...

According to the international exhibition Minimal Baroque, contemporary art has locked Minimalism and maximalism in a lusty embrace. Moreover, the show claims this antithetical premise to be a ...

Again and again during this pandemic, unable to actually see art in person, I have time-traveled within myself for sustenance — with the help of the internet, of course. Viewing art online flattens ...