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 ...

Baroque art typically brings to mind rosy-thighed cherubs, zaftig goddesses and gilt. Not anymore--in Vienna. In the Austrian capital's recently reopened Kunsthalle, an exhibit space for contemporary ...

In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

The world of the Baroque artist / Nigel Llewellyn -- Centres of Diplomatic Power, c. 1700 / Nigel Llewellyn -- Potosí : the silver mountain / Majorie Trusted -- The portrayal of absolutism / Nigel ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (1660s), oil on canvas, 41.15 x 53 inches, post-conservation image. National Gallery of ...

Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), 'We Came From the Stars' Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but as anyone who’s been looking at contemporary art for at least the past 20 years knows, a sensation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. They might have left it at that. Instead they began again, ...