LOWER SILESIA, Poland (KLTV/KTRE) - The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krzeszów, located outside Jelenia Góra in southwest Poland, is considered to be one of the greatest ...

Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture between the early 17th and mid-18th century. Its roots lay in the traditions of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Just in time for Christmas, the Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired a circa-1675 marble sculpture, “Sleeping Christ Child’’ by Filippo Parodi, an associate of the great Italian ...

A masterpiece of Baroque theatre architecture, built between 1745 and 1750, the Opera House is the only entirely preserved example of its type where an audience of 500 can experience Baroque court ...

Voiceover: Italy's Capodimonte Museum will feature 40 late Renaissance works of Italy and Neapolitan Baroque masterpieces for the first time in Hong Kong. The showcase includes mythology, still life ...

The Baroque-era, evident by the name, was a time when the Baroque style of art was at its peak. Baroque styles started in the late 16th century and were famous and growing till the early 18th century.

Throw enough money at opera and this is an art form that can respond with a lavishness no other can match. Louis XIV was certainly not short of cash and the emergence of a national French opera during ...

The Baroque, that ornate, sometimes even extravagant, style of art, architecture and music, is something that most of us associate with past and distant glories. Indeed, the Baroque flourished in the ...

One of the country’s most banter-filled Baroque stately homes has been given a £3.7m restoration grant from the National Lottery. The 18th-century Seaton Devalal Hall in Northumberland has been ...