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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 palace, the town, the church

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

St. Agatha and the candelore

The art of maiolica

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Church of St. Paul

A stone garden

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The church and the college

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Benedictines’ library

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

One city, three sites

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

Religious architecture

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Art in the cathedral

City and nature

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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

The Church of St. Francis

The interior of the church: space and colour

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Luminous sacred spaces

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 San Giovanni Evangelista

The eagle-shaped city

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The interior and works of art

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The church and the monastery

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

The two churches

The city palace

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

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

A casket of precious works

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The new roads of the city

The city within the city

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

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

The works in the church

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Church of St. Benedict

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Franciscan convent

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The articulated interior spaces

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

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

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

A story of rebirth

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The Staircase of Angels

The expansion of space and changing reality

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Palazzo dei due mori

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

A heritage of votive works

The smallest Greek theatre in the world