PARIS — In these paintings, you’ll find wine and drunken excess, along with all the accompanying decadent behavior: insult, turbulence, transgression, sacrilege, and provocation. But just how clear a ...

The exhibition displays art, largely unknown to the general public, from the Spanish colonial empire, of natural importance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests gaze at paintings from “Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez and the Hispanic Baroque,” a major exhibition that can be ...

A missing masterpiece of 18th-century painting, lost for more than 100 years, has apparently been hanging in a Los Angeles home since the mid-1950s. Nicknamed “Española” — Spanish girl — after the ...

The Zurbaran paintings and other works hanging in Auckland Castle's Long Dining Room. (Colin Davison/Auckland Castle Trust/ Zurbaran Trust.) The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is one ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

The Saint Louis Art Museum has been on a bit of a roll lately, bringing art here that normally would require great expense and travel to view outside the confines of our humble city. On the heels of ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — This low-lying, discreetly wealthy city tends to a restrained approach to art and design today: Its riverside shops are full of stark, spare furniture, and its renowned fashion ...

When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...

BRUSSELS >> For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. And now somehow, even in 2018, his Baroque paintings ...