In the vibrant heart of the Sicilian capital, the Church of the Gesù is one of those places that truly deserve to be called ...

Throughout Spain, there are charming villages preserving the vibrant heritage of Baroque art. With their sculpted facades, ...

The architectural style is the structural manifestation of a larger movement in art and design—commonly ... Fontane is a particularly good example. Next, Baroque design exemplifies a desire ...

For Casanova, Baroque art will always have an intrinsic Christian ... “a certain degree of humility,” since it requires looking back at the examples of the great artists who have preceded ...

Instead, we concentrated on taking in the lesser-known art attractions and revisiting ... decorative layers is one of one of the best examples of Baroque sculpture in Rome: Gian Lorenzo Bernini's ...

Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th ... collections in Europe – include magnificent examples by some of Western art’s greatest names. Like the Hermitage art museum ...

It was designed by the architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Nicolaus Pacassi and is full of outstanding examples of decorative art. Together with its gardens, the site of the world’s ...

LOWER SILESIA, Poland (KLTV/KTRE) - The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krzeszów, located outside Jelenia Góra in southwest Poland, is considered to be one of the greatest ...

It is a typical example of Baroque art, which is characterised by the dramatic contrast of light and dark, as well as exaggerated facial expressions and movement. The biblical characters wearing the ...