The critical rap against Neapolitan Baroque painter Luca Giordano has always been that he was an artistic magpie. Extraordinarily prolific, the widely traveled 17th century painter borrowed from ...

Concealed above a 19th-century vaulted ceiling, lay a breathtaking discovery: vibrant 17th-century frescoes untouched by time. "The first thing I saw was the landscape behind me and this ‘putto ...

Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. It married Baroque architecture (mainly the work of ...

The baroque ceiling turned out to be a false one that masked a fresco completed by Italian painters Francesco Pagano and Paolo de San Leocadio in 1481.

The fresco was covered up by a Baroque ceiling, believed to have been constructed around 1670, likely as a result of changing artistic tastes. Normally, baroque artists covering up an existing fresco ...

Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover an exquisite Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered up for more ...

Artisans have been affixing plaster decorations to walls and ceilings for centuries--mostly in imitation of Greek and Roman bas-relief.

Neil MacDonald's paintings, on view at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art in Cleveland, reinterpret the boiling energies of 17th-century Italian Baroque ceiling frescoes that impressed the ...

Conservation of baroque ceiling paintings at the Our Lady of Victory church in Valletta concluded. As Valletta marked the 450th anniversary of its foundation yesterday, ...