Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests gaze at paintings from “Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic Baroque,” a major exhibition that can be ...

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 ...

According to the international exhibition Minimal Baroque, contemporary art has locked Minimalism and maximalism in a lusty embrace. Moreover, the show claims this antithetical premise to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Soprano, oil on canvas, by Bernardo Cavallino. Provided to China Daily Fans of Baroque art, once derided as eccentric and a sad end to the glory of Renaissance art that preceded it, have a treat ...

Mary sits in a ruined building, showing her new baby to shepherds and kings. Next door, ignoring the fuss over the newborn, a woman has come out on to her narrow balcony to collect her washing. In the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It's one of those words – baroque. It's like "surreal", an art label that came unstuck from its original situation, and acquired a ...

We admit Baroque art bores us stiff. How many different ways can you fresco Jesus before he starts to look like wallpaper? So we’re happy to report on the doings of Quayola, a contemporary British ...

LECCE, Italy -- In Italy, everything begins - or ends - with an espresso. There was a beaming September sun shining on the narrow Via Torino the Sunday morning we arrived early in Rome. From where we ...