Since mid-December, the Franciscan church in Bratislava has been the new home of the latest pride of the Bratislava City Gallery – the restored monumental painting The Queen of Angels. “It is a top-of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. After a century of religious wars, pro-Vatican Baroque art featured big canvases, dramatic statues, exuberant ...

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 ...

In the story told by the Roman poet Ovid, Medusa was a beautiful young woman with many suitors. For an imagined slight the goddess Athena turned her long blonde tresses into writhing snakes. Gian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...