PARIS — In these paintings, you’ll find wine and drunken excess, along with all the accompanying decadent behavior: insult, turbulence, transgression, sacrilege, and provocation. But just how clear a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests gaze at paintings from “Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic Baroque,” a major exhibition that can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paintings by Caravaggio can be seen only at about a half-dozen U.S. cities that have his paintings in their permanent ...

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 ...

When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...

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 ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — This low-lying, discreetly wealthy city tends to a restrained approach to art and design today: Its riverside shops are full of stark, spare furniture, and its renowned fashion ...

It was thought to be lost for more than 400 years. But then in 2024, French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat uncovered the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ “Christ on the Cross” during an inspection of ...

BRUSSELS >> For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. And now somehow, even in 2018, his Baroque paintings ...