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 ...

Step into the sound world of 18th-century Italy and France with music performed on period instruments, for an authentic experience, just like the first audiences would have heard it. “Baroque Garlands ...

In 1724, George Frideric Handel brought the timeless love story of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to life in music through his exquisite opera Giulio Cesare. In honor of this dramatic work's 300th ...

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 ...

Clockwise from top left: the church of San Vincenzo; the stolen Guercino, “Madonna with Saint John Evangelist and St. Gregory the Wonderworker” (1639); and a map of Italy highlighting the location of ...

The world of the Baroque artist / Nigel Llewellyn -- Centres of Diplomatic Power, c. 1700 / Nigel Llewellyn -- Potosí : the silver mountain / Majorie Trusted -- The portrayal of absolutism / Nigel ...

Christmas masterpieces from Vivaldi and Bach will be performed with choir, orchestra and soloists at A Baroque Noel at the Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe on Sunday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. There is no ...

The piece first caught the eye of Iona College art professor Tom Ruggio when he was meditating one day at Church of the Holy Family. He immediately knew it was a valuable 17th century Italian work.