A new museum in a 17th-century canal house brings together fantastical taxidermy and natural history objects in an eclectic ...

The critical rap against Neapolitan Baroque painter Luca Giordano has always been that he was an artistic magpie. Extraordinarily prolific, the widely traveled 17th century painter borrowed from ...

The baroque ceiling turned out to be a false one that masked a fresco completed by Italian painters Francesco Pagano and Paolo de San Leocadio in 1481.

Neil MacDonald's paintings, on view at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art in Cleveland, reinterpret the boiling energies of 17th-century Italian Baroque ceiling frescoes that impressed the ...

Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover an exquisite Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered up for more ...

Artisans have been affixing plaster decorations to walls and ceilings for centuries--mostly in imitation of Greek and Roman bas-relief.

The stunning frescoes are attributed to Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratta and his pupils, ... Electrician discovers 17th-century frescoes hidden behind false ceiling at Rome's Villa Farnesina.

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta. A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa ...

Wooden ceiling designs have a unique ability to transform any room, infusing it with warmth, character, and a sense of ...

W e met – the King and Queen and 40 or so senior journalists – in a glorious palace to talk about the climate crisis.Under an ornate Baroque ceiling and chandeliers the size of small SUVs, we ...

When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, ... The ceiling of a chapel in the sanctuary of Ocotlán, one of the most beautiful in Latin America, took 20 years to decorate.