Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have gone on show in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “The Road to the Baroque” exhibition. The 40 paintings ...

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1670), two of de Óbidos’s paintings are quite frankly ... phantasmagorical illusions particular to the Baroque: for example, the fruit and flower petals that hover around Teresa’s head ...

There is the clear allusion to mortality in the French word for the genre — nature morte — and its baroque obsession ... of three centuries of flower painting. It is bound to be compelling ...

Such was the gift of Wautier, whose genre-crossing talents are the subject of Michaelina: Baroque’s Leading ... were “at best tolerated for painting flowers.” The skill exhibited by Wautier ...

The baroque town of Noto ... are veritable works art above your head. This is also where the Infiorata di Noto, a spectacular flower festival, takes place every May. Over dozens of metres ...

At the Nevada Museum of Art, in one room of its current "Italian Baroque" paintings exhibit, the Dandini clan is holding a family reunion of sorts. There are the patriarchs, brothers Vincenzo and ...

As he passes the painting “Flowers” by Italian Baroque painter Paolo Porpora,he trips in front of its barrier, smacking it with a hand holding a drink. The boy stands in disbelief for a few ...

The 350-year-old painting was by Baroque artist Paolo Porpora ... to catch his balance on the 17th-century oil painting titled "Flowers." He accidentally punches a hole the size of a fist ...