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The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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Furnishing and innovation

The furniture used to furnish the houses of wealthy families followed the fashion of the time.
Louis XV style spread between 1720 and 1760 and was a revolution in furnishing that reflected the luxurious and refined lifestyle of the French nobility.
It was a period of great innovation in woodworking techniques.
There was a preference for slender, light and highly decorated structures inspired by the Italian and German Rococo.

The Staircase of Angels

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Palazzo dei due mori

City and nature

The church and the college

Art in the cathedral

The Franciscan convent

Religious architecture

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

The Church of St. Benedict

The Benedictines’ library

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Luminous sacred spaces

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The art of maiolica

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Paul

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The interior of the church: space and colour

The articulated interior spaces

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The two churches

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

One city, three sites

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The church and the monastery

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Church of St. Francis

A casket of precious works

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The works in the church

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The interior and works of art

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

The expansion of space and changing reality

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The palace, the town, the church

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

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

The city palace

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A heritage of votive works

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

St. Agatha and the candelore

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The eagle-shaped city

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

The new roads of the city

A story of rebirth

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The city within the city

A stone garden

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion