an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of the prophets; and seven chapels illustrating the Stations of the Cross, in which the polychrome sculptures by Aleijadinho are masterpieces of a highly ...

Another epoch in art, the Baroque, took its fullest form when another ... Although the Nesvizh and Kraków churches were pioneering projects for the new era, the typical Baroque interior design in line ...

Guido Reni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Best known for his commissioned frescos ... Today, his works are found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

It was here that the Italian Baroque ... period when the artist began to “ingagliardire gli oscuri” (“invigorate the dark shades”), in the memorable phrase of the 17th-century painter and ...

William Christie is as busy as ever in a season celebrating his 80th birthday, conducting, playing the harpsichord, ...