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 ...

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 National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced the acquisition of a rare painting by the Baroque artist ...

When I meet Rollins Museum of Art director Ena Heller, she is glowing with the radiance of a scholar who almost can’t believe her good fortune. “It’s probably the largest and best collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 'The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa,' the spiritual and sexual collide. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1645 and 1652). Cornaro Chapel at the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. In Gian ...

When Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl and his brothers were growing up, their parents often took them to art galleries and museums to teach them about art. On one trip, when the brothers were aged around 10 to ...

The craftsmen of the baroque preferred a curve to a straight line and a contorted curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful ...