Baroque culture, he contends ... as well as famous sculptures and paintings. Throughout the era, foreign architects were sponsored to work in the country. The most famous was Dutch artist Tylman van ...

Art by Kara Walker / Image from Flickr The Frick Museums in New York and Pittsburgh are typically known for their collections of Classical and Baroque painting and sculpture, which made me all the ...

It was here that the Italian Baroque painter developed a distinctive ... The unprecedented realism and the grandly theatrical style of his paintings impressed, influenced and sometimes shocked ...