The show – set amid the 16th century grandeur of the Winter Palace – is a meeting of art and world views from two very different eras, suggesting an unstable reality characterised by a constant ...

The art and architecture of the palace celebrates Louis's reign as the king of kings. It's essentially a long series of lavish rooms, each with its own theme. The style is delightfully Baroque ...

Under the Baroque plaster ceilings of the Schloss Köpenick ... The museum is housed in a 17th-century palace on a man-made island in the river Dahme on the outskirts of Berlin, and since 1963 ...

A new Prague museum dedicated to the Czech Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha will offer "art for everyone" when it opens this month, ultimately housing his giant Slav Epic masterpiece after decades in ...

The flat is decorated in a baroque style akin to the ... Inspired by her passion for 17th Century art and design, she set about creating a mini Palace of Versailles inside.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A baroque royal palace is slowly rising from the ashes in Berlin decades after communists ordered its demolition, but critics say the project is too costly and contradicts the ...

Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque ... art’s greatest names. Like the Hermitage art museum in St Petersburg, Russia, and the Louvre in Paris, the Capodimonte is in a former palace.

Winston Churchill, a fate bound to Blenheim Palace Considered to be the most beautiful Baroque castle in England, Blenheim Palace was also the birthplace of one of the United Kingdom’s greatest ...

Its baroque Court Garden (Hofgarten) is worth a visit. The palace park designed by Henrico Zuccalli is a prime example of 17th century garden art, as it is one of the few baroque gardens that have ...

From the outside it will mimic the baroque-style Hohenzollern palace which stood here from the 15th century, when the Prussian royal family began construction, to 1950, when the East German ...