Any aficionado of Germany’s Baroque and Rococo abbeys will be familiar with the tiny church guides (Kirchenführer) for sale next to the collection box and published by the likes of Josef Fink or ...

SARASOTA -- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn. -- the oldest public art museum in the nation -- has had a long-standing relationship with the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art ...

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 ...

Baroque & Rococo : idea & image -- Setting the stage : social, cultural, & artistic institutions -- The Baroque church : setting for mystery, propaganda, & worship ...