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The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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Stuccoes, floors and geometric decorations

The interior of the church is defined by numerous decorations featuring a geometric design. For example, the floor is made with two-tone tiles and is inscribed within the elliptical plan.
The apsidal vault is decorated with small octagons, and the frescoes on the vault are divided by bands that echo the pattern of the small octagons on the apsidal vault.
It is interesting to note how all these geometric elements, with their simple shapes, give a sense of order within the dynamic spatiality typical of Baroque church interiors.

The two churches

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The articulated interior spaces

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A story of rebirth

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The interior and works of art

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Badia di Sant’Agata (St. Agatha’s Abbey)

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The neo-Gothic seminary chapel: symbols, light and space

The Benedictines’ library

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The new roads of the city

The eagle-shaped city

One city, three sites

Verticality and dynamism of the façade of the Church of San Carlo

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Art in the cathedral

A casket of precious works

The Church of St. Francis

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giuliano ai Crociferi

The freedom of worship and the Catholic Church’s role in the diffusion of Baroque

The city within the city

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Duomo di San Giorgio (Cathedral of St. George)

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Views denied, views conquered: the power of the devout Benedictines

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Piazza Duomo, the elephant fountain, the heart of the city

The art of maiolica

The church and the college

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The works in the church

City and nature

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell the story of the Church of Santa Maria del Monte

Religious architecture

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The interior of the church: space and colour

The palace, the town, the church

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell the Benedictine Monastery and the Church of San Nicolò l’Arena

A stone garden

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The Franciscan convent

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Church of the Badia di Sant’Agata

The senses tell the story of the Sanctuary Church of Santa Maria della Stella

The Staircase of Angels

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Carlo and the former Jesuit college

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The church and the monastery

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Geometry and wonder in civic architecture in the Baroque of the Val di Noto

Barresi-Branciforte: the lords of the fiefdom and the modernisation of the town

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The expansion of space and changing reality

The city palace

The Church of St. Benedict

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The church of San Nicolò l’Arena: the majesty of an unfinished beauty

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

A heritage of votive works

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century