Despite a short life marred by brawls, arrests and even murder, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as ...

The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

professional art restorers and experts from the public sector and companies has resulted in the discovery of works of art, artists and documents from the São Paulo baroque era that have remain hidden, ...

The paintings should cover the entire vaulting of the church ... based on a central plan, being popularised in the Baroque era. Here, it was no longer necessary to direct the gaze of the worshippers ...

(According to Pliny the Elder, the ancient painter Zeuxis demonstrated his acumen by painting grapes so realistic that birds tried to eat them.) Curtains often appear in Baroque and Cubist ...

Indeed, the Baroque architectural style is recognized by its grand scale, elaborate facades, and lavish interiors. Lasting for 150 years, the Baroque period of architecture, music, and art influenced ...

This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque ...

Born in Seville, in 1599, Diego Velázquez would become one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. A contemporary of artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, he rose from ...