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 ...
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 ...
For the first time in the U.S., an exhibit from Italy showcases masterpieces of the Baroque period of art. The St. Peterburg Museum of Art will host this exhibit until March 22nd.
'Allegory of Painting' (self-portrait), 1658. Sirani, Elisabetta (1638-1665). Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage ...
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 ...
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 ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/1483250 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1483250 Copy URL In the compositional structure of baroque art, one of the basic, most characteristic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...