They contain some of the objects most full of joie de vivre in the V&A's vast collection, yet the baroque and rococo galleries themselves have for decades been dingy, dark and disorientating. A ...

Any aficionado of Germany’s Baroque and Rococo abbeys will be familiar with the tiny church guides (Kirchenführer) for sale next to the collection box and published by the likes of Josef Fink or ...

In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the National Museum in Wrocław, southwestern Poland, has put on a grand exhibition called “Rococo Madness" to trace the fascination with late Baroque art in ...

'It is like a kind of fat," says the waitress offering a portion of what turns out to be delicious spiced dripping. Or at least I think it was. Plumped with generous portions of spiced potato soup, ...

Michael Vetter, Newfields associate curator of contemporary, left, and artist Robert Horvath pose inside Horvath’s immersive watercolor installation “Room for the Lost Paradise.” (Photo by Anna ...

The craftsmen of the baroque preferred a curve to a straight line and a contorted curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful ...

The Royal Palace of Madrid houses extraordinary artworks, particularly its Baroque and Rococo ceiling frescoes by Italian ...