Palazzo Zimara just reopened as an exquisitely restored boutique hotel near Lecce, Italy, with 16 rooms, two restaurants, and ...

and rejecting the frills of rococo and baroque architecture. He designed The British Museum, completed in the 1850s, which had a floor area of 600,000 square feet in four wings arranged around an ...

Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation, an effort by the Catholic Church to respond to the rising challenge of Protestantism across Europe. Church leaders used ...