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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.

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The city palace

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

One city, three sites

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The palace, the town, the church

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The articulated interior spaces

The Franciscan convent

Religious architecture

A heritage of votive works

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

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

The eagle-shaped city

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The new roads of the city

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The expansion of space and changing reality

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Church of St. Benedict

The Benedictines’ library

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The works in the church

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

A story of rebirth

St. Agatha and the candelore

The two churches

A stone garden

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The church and the monastery

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The interior of the church: space and colour

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

A casket of precious works

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Art in the cathedral

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Staircase of Angels

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The church and the college

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Paul

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The Church of St. Francis

City and nature

The interior and works of art

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The city within the city

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

The art of maiolica

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix