After centuries in a private collection and hidden under a dense layer of overpainting, a Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpture is finally coming to light at Rijksmuseum. Its arrival at the Amsterdam ...

Martin Panovski used to like hanging out in the center of his hometown, Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, a tiny Balkan nation that was, until 1991, part of Yugoslavia. Skopje's an old city, with ...

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...

pt. 1. Period of transition and the early Baroque, circa 1600-circa 1625. Rome : Sixtus V to Paul V (1585-1621) -- Caravaggio -- The Carracci -- Caravaggio's followers and the Carracci school in Rome ...

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 ...

Metamorphosed by its colonial riches, Portugal developed a distinctive Baroque style in the 18th century. Gilded altarpieces, theatrical facades and monumental staircases tell the story of a kingdom ...

Oxford landmarks and statues have been covered in wigs ahead of a new exhibition at Blenheim Palace.