Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. After a century of religious wars, pro-Vatican Baroque art featured big canvases, dramatic statues, exuberant ...

The right word is "luscious." Wandering through the galleries of the Blanton Museum of Art, an impression of extravagant sensuality imbues "Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic ...

Renowned art historian Charles Dempsey, professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Art in Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, died of a heart attack at Georgetown ...

We marvel at Baroque’s over-the-top churches, palaces, bubbly fountains, and theatric art. Forged in Europe’s religious struggles, Baroque art inspired the faithful and dazzled the masses. We start in ...

When Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl and his brothers were growing up, their parents often took them to art galleries and museums to teach them about art. On one trip, when the brothers were aged around 10 to ...