Keep reading to learn the defining characteristics of Georgian ... And unlike the opulent Baroque styles of the preceding era, Georgian architecture was exponentially easier to replicate with ...

Distinctive characteristics of this ... 16th-century Renaissance grid pattern and Baroque-style monumental buildings and ruins have survived along with cobblestone streets, plazas with fountains, and ...

The emplacement as well as the formal characteristics and techniques used in the Franciscan ... the creation of a new system of urban arrangement and a building process. The architecture of the ...

The sixth Mughal emperor, Aurangazeb, is the hot villain in Indian cinema now. But what do our favourite villains say about ...

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini offers an astonishing survey of the painter, featuring ...

The adventures of Michelangelo Merisi (1571–1610), known as Caravaggio, were linked to the religious context in Rome from his earliest days as a painter. The Ordinary Jubilee of 1600, under the ...

Artistry and beauty in architecture has been proven to make people happier; we should abandon modernism in favor of our ...

In addition to this Caravaggio fresco — which he painted for the villa’s first owner, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, in 1597 — the villa has ceiling frescoes by other Baroque masters ...

Architects and enthusiasts participated in the nomination process, choosing projects that exemplify what it means to push architecture forward. These finalists are the buildings that have inspired ...

With its radical buildings by Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto, the Finnish capital is one of Europe’s most fascinating, if lesser-sung, design capitals. A view of the elegant Ullanlinna, Eira and ...