When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...

Trinity Fine Art is set to present a trio of masterworks that illuminate the transition of painting in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Baroque art typically brings to mind rosy-thighed cherubs, zaftig goddesses and gilt. Not anymore--in Vienna. In the Austrian capital's recently reopened Kunsthalle, an exhibit space for contemporary ...

ROME — Finally a modern and critical exhibition about the Baroque in its global context that explores the ways Roman and European artists and intellectuals approached the world beyond Europe. To be ...

In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (1660s), oil on canvas, 41.15 x 53 inches, post-conservation image. National Gallery of ...

The world of the Baroque artist / Nigel Llewellyn -- Centres of Diplomatic Power, c. 1700 / Nigel Llewellyn -- Potosí : the silver mountain / Majorie Trusted -- The portrayal of absolutism / Nigel ...

When I meet Rollins Museum of Art director Ena Heller, she is glowing with the radiance of a scholar who almost can’t believe her good fortune. “It’s probably the largest and best collection of ...

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 ...

The Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida is offering visitors a rare glimpse into the grandeur of Spain’s Golden Age. On view through March 30, 2025, and organized in partnership with the Hispanic ...