It lasted until the end of the 17th century, until the death of another Polish king, Jan III Sobieski. However, while the Polish Renaissance (and Mannerism, its declining form) were to a large extent ...

Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture between the early 17th and mid-18th century. Its roots lay in the traditions of ...

William Aslet looks at Moor Park, Hertfordshire, where the ambitious work of the painter and architect Sir James Thornhill recast a major 17th-century house as a Baroque masterpiece. Photographs by ...