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 ...

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 ...

A reader has kindly been in touch with news that the Narodna galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has just opened a large ...

It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive pictorial language that achieved narrative depth and psychological complexity through a striking interplay of shadow and light.

The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private ... could have been done during his Neapolitan period.