ROME — Finally a modern and critical exhibition about the Baroque in its global context that explores the ways Roman and European artists and intellectuals approached the world beyond Europe. To be ...

In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

The Baroque period gave Rome its most dramatic appearance, defining the visual style of the city, long a millefoglie of historical epochs, that remains to this day. Roman Baroque is splendor amplified ...

History professor Paolo DiGregorio will be back at the senior center on Wednesday, June 23 at 5 p.m. to present his program on Baroque Rome. During the 16th and 18th centuries, Rome, an Eternal City, ...

Rome is a showcase of Western civilization, layered with elements of the city’s 2,000-year-old history. Among the traffic-choked 21st-century boulevards, you’ll find marble ruins of ancient times, ...

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.

Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk.

STROKES OF GENIUS PIETRO DA CORTONA AND ROMAN BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE By Jörg Martin Merz. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2008. £45 This is the first modern comprehensive monograph on this ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Goes Big and Goes Winslow Homer in a Splendid Show A Catfight in a Snake Pit in Philly’s Art Museum NRPLUS Conference Call with Meir Soloveichik and Rich Lowry Dracula ...

Italian police are investigating how Rome's beloved Bernini elephant monument has been damaged.

In celebration of Piranesi's Rome and the Classical Imaginary, please join us for a noontime performance of baroque music with period instruments, including a baroque flute, cello, and violin.