The grandest domes of Europe and the narrow labyrinthine alleys of the districts, the splendor of noble palaces and the ...

Another epoch in art, the Baroque, took its fullest form when another dynasty of rulers, the House of Vasa, sat on the Polish throne. It lasted until the end of the 17th century, until the death of ...

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini offers an astonishing survey of the painter, featuring ...

The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private ...

The Willits Center for the Arts invites the public to an engaging discussion on the life and work of Diego Velázquez, one of the most influential painters of the Spanish Golden Age. This special ...

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 ...

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth ... the appeal of Caravaggio’s fierce originality as well as his reputation as Baroque’s sword-bearing bad boy. Of the 24 works on show, nine are from foreign ...

It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive pictorial language that achieved narrative depth and psychological complexity through a striking interplay of shadow and light.