Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. After a century of religious wars, pro-Vatican Baroque art featured big canvases, dramatic statues ...

Art Bites 173: Baroque Art, the Catholic Church, and the Virgin Mary Clip | 3m 42s | Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. (3m 42s) ...

In the maze of the historic heart of Palermo, Sicily, the Church of the Gesù stands unassumingly, without external ostentation. Yet to cross its threshold is to enter a world where Baroque art ...

Getting to see the baroque side of Portugal means getting immersed in a world of artistic exuberance and religious fervour. Less well known than the baroque of Italy or Spain, the Portuguese baroque ...

The Church has stood at similar crossroads several times in the modern era. From 1545 to 1560, the Council of Trent met to determine the Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation.