One of the major educational events in Phoenix will take place on Jan. 28, when Dr. Davide Gasparotto, senior curator 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 ...

All 40 paintings are from the collection of Roberto Longhi, the Italian art historian known for revitalizing Caravaggio's ...

This week, Christopher Bishop Fine Art debuts the dealer's latest discovery—a previously unknown occult painting by Fedele ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s about 6,000 miles from Phoenix to the city of Florence, Italy. But fans of Florentine art don’t have to go any farther than Central Avenue and McDowell Road to enjoy some. Next month, Phoenix Art ...

ROME — An art history professor, Giovan Battista Fidanza, was taking a group of students through the baroque Church of Santa Bibiana two weeks ago, when he made what he called a “macabre discovery.” ...

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