The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum has been on a bit of a roll lately, bringing art here that normally would require great expense and travel to view outside the confines of our humble city. On the heels of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plague swept through Italy’s southern Mediterranean coast in 1656, ravaging towns and villages in the kingdom of Naples. The ...

An art history professor in Westchester, New York, has discovered a rare Italian Baroque painting at a local church. Iona College professor Tom Ruggio did a “double take” when he first saw the work at ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — This low-lying, discreetly wealthy city tends to a restrained approach to art and design today: Its riverside shops are full of stark, spare furniture, and its renowned fashion ...

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca-Márquez once remarked that the Latin-American strongman is the only myth Latin America has foisted upon the First World. He is wrong. In the art world, an equally ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Italy’s pantheon of celebrated artists is very crowded. Still, in the ...

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 ...

It was thought to be lost for more than 400 years. But then in 2024, French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat uncovered the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ “Christ on the Cross” during an inspection of ...

The book traces the story of Baroque painting in Malta reflects that of the Italian peninsula and, in many ways, it can be directly integrated within it. In terms of quantity, the island was ...

In 1612 a court in Rome heard the testimony of Artemisia Gentileschi, a 19-year-old, in a case against a well-connected artist called Agostino Tassi. Tassi was her art tutor and her probable future ...