CLEVELAND, Ohio – Just in time for Christmas, the Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired a circa-1675 marble sculpture, “Sleeping Christ Child’’ by Filippo Parodi, an associate of the great Italian ...
Guercino’s Friar with A Gold Earring: Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter, and Art Dealer Presents New Insights into Seventeenth-Century Art World. Immortalized to history by Guercino’s portrait, the ...
An art history professor in Westchester, New York, has discovered a rare Italian Baroque painting at a local church. Iona College professor Tom Ruggio did a “double take” when he first saw the work at ...
Two of the 17th century’s most drama-loving artists are paired together for the first time in a new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painter Caravaggio and the sculptor ...
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 ...
148.9 x 186.7 cm. (58.6 x 73.5 in.) Commissioned from the artist by Giovanni Antonio Sauli (1596-1661), Genoa, likely in 1621; Thence by descent to his son, Francesco Maria Sauli (1662-1699), Genoa; ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A private collection of 57 Italian Baroque paintings once belonging to banking heir Denis Mahon and valued at more than 100 million pounds has been formally handed over to six ...
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 ...
We marvel at Baroque’s over-the-top churches, palaces, bubbly fountains, and theatric art. Forged in Europe’s religious struggles, Baroque art inspired the faithful and dazzled the masses. We start in ...