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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 Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Staircase of Angels

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The palace, the town, the church

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

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A casket of precious works

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

The eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

City and nature

The articulated interior spaces

The church and the college

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The two churches

The Palazzo dei due mori

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

The works in the church

The Church of St. Paul

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

A heritage of votive works

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The Church of St. Benedict

The art of maiolica

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The city within the city

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The casket of austerity under the great dome

A stone garden

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Religious architecture

The city palace

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Church of St. Francis

Art in the cathedral

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The new roads of the city

One city, three sites

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

St. Agatha and the candelore

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

The church and the monastery

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

A story of rebirth

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

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

Luminous sacred spaces