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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baroque art typically brings to mind rosy-thighed cherubs, zaftig goddesses and gilt. Not anymore--in Vienna. In the Austrian capital's recently reopened Kunsthalle, an exhibit space for contemporary ...

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 ...

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 ...

We admit Baroque art bores us stiff. How many different ways can you fresco Jesus before he starts to look like wallpaper? So we’re happy to report on the doings of Quayola, a contemporary British ...

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 ...

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 ...