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 ...
Come discover the charms of the imperial European city so beautiful, it’s inspired composers, artists, and royalty (and tourists!) for centuries… Vienna is a city that’s incredibly easy to fall in ...
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 ...
Visit Cambridge's King's College Chapel for Gothic architecture and Wren Library for rare collections, including works by ...
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 ...
Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...
Birth of the Baroque in Rome / Paolo Portoghesi -- The Baroque and its buildings / Christian Norberg-Schulz -- Architecture in the seventeenth century in Europe / Hillary Ballon -- The age of the late ...