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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wandering through the galleries of the Blanton Museum of Art, an impression of extravagant sensuality imbues “Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic Baroque,” a major exhibition that ...

The baroque was about nothing if not display. A camel made from misshapen pearls, known in Portuguese as pérolas barrocas (one of the suggested origins of the word baroque); an ostrich egg cup with ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. An epoch that has given birth to Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull, Marc Quinn’s pregnant man and ...