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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Soprano, oil on canvas, by Bernardo Cavallino. Provided to China Daily Fans of Baroque art, once derided as eccentric and a sad end to the glory of Renaissance art that preceded it, have a treat ...

Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have gone on show in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “The Road to the Baroque” exhibition. The 40 paintings loaned from ...