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 ...

According to the international exhibition Minimal Baroque, contemporary art has locked Minimalism and maximalism in a lusty embrace. Moreover, the show claims this antithetical premise to be a ...

In the heart of Rome, the Doria-Pamphilj Palace reveals a refined Baroque treasure, renowned for its richly decorated salons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Self-portrait: the female figure in this detail from The Triumph of Bacchus (c 1655–59) by ...

The Soprano, oil on canvas, by Bernardo Cavallino. Provided to China Daily Fans of Baroque art, once derided as eccentric and a sad end to the glory of Renaissance art that preceded it, have a treat ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

The ‘beauties’ of the British baroque are largely art as propaganda. And is today’s figurative painting really that radical? Charles II, otherwise known as the “Merry Monarch”, was 6ft 2in in his ...

Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have gone on show in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “The Road to the Baroque” exhibition. The 40 paintings loaned from ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It's one of those words – baroque. It's like "surreal", an art label that came unstuck from its original situation, and acquired a ...