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

His effusive, chromatically complex painted vault for the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence ranks as the greatest Baroque ceiling decoration outside Rome.

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 ...

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. They were hired by papal envoy Rodrigo Borja ...

The designs range from chaste Greek-key borders to Baroque ceiling medallions. Although plaster ornamentation is still used, wood and plastic alternatives can be readily found at lumberyards, home ...

The stunning frescoes are attributed to Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratta and his pupils, Girolamo Troppa and François Simonot.

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 ...

We 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 ...

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

The craftsmen of the baroque preferred a curve to a straight line and a contorted curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful ...