Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

They are transporting the few of us listening at the edge back to the early 18th century. Not for nothing does the Irish Baroque Orchestra call itself Ireland’s time-travelling orchestra.

By late in the 17th century, the vaulted loggia ceiling had fallen into disrepair, and included loose areas of “intonaco,” the final, smooth layer of plaster used in frescoed painting.

The remains of a 17th Century sea wall uncovered a during coastal defence scheme has been clad in steel to protect it. The triangular-shaped structure, in front of Southsea Castle, was revealed by ...

who used to paint alongside Caravaggio and lived in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century. In fact, a 1607 letter addressed to the Duke of Mantua from a Flemish painter visiting Italy noted that ...

Caravaggio’s painting belongs to the Baroque period, which spanned from the early 17th century to the mid-18th ... His psychological realism was strikingly different from the Renaissance painters.