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 ...

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 ...

Philadelphia — GETTING a new empire off the ground is never easy. There are territories to be secured by armies, complicated political structures to be established, populations to be subjugated, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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How did Baroque period artists/sculputors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble skull carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The ...

The most important collection of early European sculpture ever to come to auction, the Quentin collection is led by Giambologna’s riveting bronze- Mars, cast in his lifetime by his studio assistant.

Prague, the Czech Republic’s jewel of a capital, has long charmed international travelers with its striking Gothic spires, labyrinthine cobblestone streets and rich history. Yet while the city’s ...

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 ...

There was art before him and after him, and they were not the same," wrote Time Magazine's art critic Robert Hughes of the 17th century European Master widely regarded as an innovator of light for his ...