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 ...

"Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" is the gallery's first work by the Italian artist, who was one of the most influential female ...

At the Nevada Museum of Art, in one room of its current "Italian Baroque" paintings exhibit, the Dandini clan is holding a family reunion of sorts. There are the patriarchs, brothers Vincenzo and ...

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 ...

Imagine the ebullient glory of a vast ceiling mural from an Italian Baroque church brought down to size and hung on your living-room wall. In a series of beautiful and quietly perplexing paintings on ...

An art history professor in Westchester, New York, has discovered a rare Italian Baroque painting at a local church. Iona College professor Tom Ruggio did a “double take” when he first saw the work at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1612 a court in Rome heard the testimony of Artemisia Gentileschi, a 19-year-old, in a case against a well-connected artist called Agostino Tassi. Tassi was her art tutor and her probable future ...