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 ...

Imagine the ebullient glory of a vast ceiling mural from an Italian Baroque church brought down to size and hung on your living-room wall. In a series of beautiful and quietly perplexing paintings on ...

At the Nevada Museum of Art, in one room of its current "Italian Baroque" paintings exhibit, the Dandini clan is holding a family reunion of sorts. There are the patriarchs, brothers Vincenzo and ...

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 ...

Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have gone on show in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “The Road to the Baroque” exhibition. The 40 paintings loaned from ...

It is thought that Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer's Landscape of Italian Character, a painting on wood, may have been looted from the palace in Bayreuth, today part of the Bavarian State Painting ...

The Zurbaran paintings and other works hanging in Auckland Castle's Long Dining Room. (Colin Davison/Auckland Castle Trust/ Zurbaran Trust.) The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is one ...

Until recently, the Renaissance and Baroque practice of painting on polished stone—from slate, marble, agate and alabaster to lapis lazuli and amethyst—drew relatively little attention from scholars.

A 17th century masterpiece that was one of three paintings stolen from Oxford University has been returned. The baroque painting, A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan, by Salvator Rosa has now ...