Throughout Spain, there are charming villages preserving the vibrant heritage of Baroque art. With their sculpted facades, grand churches and narrow streets steeped in history, these places make ...

In the maze of the historic heart of Palermo, Sicily, the Church of the Gesù stands unassumingly, without external ostentation.Yet to cross its threshold is to enter a world where Baroque art ...

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.

Known as the Counter-Reformation, Baroque architecture was part of the Church’s campaign to entice congregants back into Catholic worship. By constructing churches to inspire awe and emotion ...

Two dozen Caravaggio paintings from museums and private collectors across the world are on display in Rome's Palazzo ...

After 72 years, the Narva Museum's Baroque wooden fragments were discovered to be fragments of the St. John's Church (the former Swedish Dome Cathedral) painting frames and the Narva Cathedral of the ...

By the early 17th Century, the Americas sparkled with 70,000 churches. As the baroque influence increased, façades and portals were encrusted with a rich mixture of Christian and pagan symbols ...