Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...
Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...
The right word is “luscious.” Wandering through the galleries of the Blanton Museum of Art, an impression of extravagant sensuality imbues “Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic ...
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 ...
ST. PETERSBURG — “In Caravaggio’s Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi” opened Saturday at the ...
In the heart of the English countryside, Blenheim Palace combines the exuberance of Baroque art with the vegetal glory of landscape architect Capability Brown. A must-see, less than 30 minutes from ...