Baroque cellist Lynden Cranham will present a programme of movements from Bach’s magnificent Cello Suites for this year’s Festival of Chichester.

The Rubens Ceiling (1629-35, Banqueting House, London). Rubens’s only surviving in-situ ceiling work, commissioned by Charles I as a tribute to his father and the Stuart dynasty. The Union of the ...

The city is having a moment—from design-forward hotel openings to natural wine spots beating out the hardy local beers, and ...

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

Juxtaposition of a painted baroque ceiling and engraved Mamluk-era ceiling uncovered during restoration. Via Thomas Pinn. A similar juxtaposition can be seen on one of the ceilings of Bayt Yakan, in ...

While everyone flocks to the usual suspects for their European summer adventures, Porto sits quietly in the north of Portugal ...

Step inside English aristocrat homes that feel straight out of a fairytale with grand details, charm, and timeless ...

Sadly, 39 ceiling paintings created by Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck were lost in a fire caused by a lightning strike in 1718. Saint Paul’s Church (Sint-Pauluskerk): contains Disputation of the Holy ...

About an hour and a half north of Budapest by car, there’s a little yellow church — the Basilica of Our Lady of the ...

Rich in honey-hued churches and elaborate baroque designs, the southern Italian city of Lecce is often regarded as the 'Florence of the South'.

In the older ceiling is a second trap door. When you shine a light into the darkness, broad frescoes appear, of cherubs floating amid rolling hills and thistledown clouds in a summery blue sky.