Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...

I think it’s fair to say that most of us don’t know much about the Japanese Baroque Period from 1550 to 1650. I, for one, knew embarrassingly little. That is, until I visited the special exhibit at ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s an exciting summer at the museum! "Bernini & the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia" brings to the museum 50 works by more than 40 artists that will, for the duration ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER — Lyra Baroque, the only exclusively Baroque orchestra in the Upper Midwest, is taking a cue from a Rochester classical music organization to find its new leader. Four finalist candidates ...