an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of the prophets; and seven chapels illustrating the Stations of the Cross, in which the polychrome sculptures by Aleijadinho are masterpieces of a highly ...

and 70,000 images of Western art arranged in 2,000 slide shows by subject matter can be downloaded from his personal website: socialhistoryofart.com His Ph.D. thesis, "The Humble Style in Northern ...

A 1606 painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, which resurfaced only in 2014, comes up for viewing at the KNMA ...

Four of them were inscribed as World Heritage in 1993. The churches have survived several earthquakes and wars, and are known as "Earthquake Baroque" due to their strong quake-resistant structures.