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 ...
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 ...
ST. PETERSBURG — “In Caravaggio’s Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi” opened Saturday at the ...
This week, Christopher Bishop Fine Art debuts the dealer's latest discovery—a previously unknown occult painting by Fedele ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Italy’s pantheon of celebrated artists is very crowded. Still, in the ...
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 ...
A missing masterpiece of 18th-century painting, lost for more than 100 years, has apparently been hanging in a Los Angeles home since the mid-1950s. Nicknamed “Española” — Spanish girl — after the ...