Lasting for 150 years, the Baroque period of architecture, music, and art influenced churches, palaces, mansions, and civic ...
Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...
He fled Rome to avoid a life sentence. Caravaggio's revolutionary style helped anticipate the Baroque period. However the sudden end of his dramatic and turbulent life — at the age of 38 ...
The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid examines the transformation of Madrid from a secondary market ... the books illustrates how the Plaza Mayor became central to the architecture as well ...
Practicality, politics and national pride are woven together to produce an elegant and uncluttered book about a church that does, as the author hopes it will, emerge as one of the most 'precious and ...