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 ...

Every once in a while, a city gets exactly the museum it needs. Bilbao used its Guggenheim to complete a post-industrial transformation. The Museum of Modern Art boosted New York’s 20th-century ...

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 ...

ROME — Finally a modern and critical exhibition about the Baroque in its global context that explores the ways Roman and European artists and intellectuals approached the world beyond Europe. To be ...

In the early days of Covid-19 lockdown, Tom Ruggio, an art historian at Iona College in New York, walked into the nearby Church of the Holy Family on a bit of a whim. A scholar of Italian religious ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum has been on a bit of a roll lately, bringing art here that normally would require great expense and travel to view outside the confines of our humble city. On the heels of ...

Gustavo Nazareno’s richly symbolic paintings investigate the African hand in Brazilian Baroque art. GABRIEL_VOLPI In 2018, Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his ...

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 ...

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 ...