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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 art of maiolica

A casket of precious works

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The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

One city, three sites

The works in the church

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

St. Agatha and the candelore

A stone garden

The two churches

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The Church of St. Benedict

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

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Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Staircase of Angels

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The church and the monastery

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The Church of St. Paul

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Church of St. Francis

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The church and the college

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Religious architecture

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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City and nature

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A unifying project for the city of Catania

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The palace, the town, the church

The expansion of space and changing reality

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The new roads of the city

The articulated interior spaces

The city palace

The Church of Madonna della Stella

A story of rebirth

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The Franciscan convent

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

The interior and works of art

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The city within the city

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

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

The Benedictines’ library

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

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

A heritage of votive works

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Art in the cathedral

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