The traditional vibrant use of color and patterns in South American art, particularly in Peruvian textiles, persists as a ...

Italy is famous for many things—art, architecture ... texture and thickness. The Baroque style swept through Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries when the Catholic Church, in response to ...

Positioned on the Bay of Kotor, the small town of Perast offers a peaceful waterfront escape, filled with quaint churches and baroque palaces ... Its religious art and medieval architecture ...

There are many things to love about fall. Perhaps most notably this year, it's the relief from the excruciating heat that ...

This German painter, who captured the sublime beauty of God through nature, might have a lesson or two for today’s turbulent ...

Morelia is a stunning city designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As the capital of Michoacán, an agricultural state ...

You will find Byzantine mosaics, Baroque buildings ... the 18th-century Ragusa Cathedral, a Roman Catholic Church dedicated ...

Vatican or Colosseum. Colosseum or Vatican. It’s hard to know where to start with a guide to the sites of Rome. This is a ...

The Moors, along with the Romans, were the invading populations that exerted control, in one form or another, over Spain for ...

Sadly the fascinating exhibition of some 130 crosses, in 'It's Iconic' at Westminster Cathedral is prematurely drawing to a ...

This groundbreaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic ...

“These follow the same theology as famous Baroque ... art you hang up in your house, it becomes something that touches the ...