Noto

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.

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The Palazzo dei due mori

A casket of precious works

A story of rebirth

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

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

The interior of the church: space and colour

The articulated interior spaces

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A stone garden

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The city palace

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Franciscan convent

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

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

One city, three sites

A heritage of votive works

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The two churches

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Church of St. Paul

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The church and the college

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Art in the cathedral

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

City and nature

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

St. Agatha and the candelore

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Benedictines’ library

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Church of St. Benedict

The palace, the town, the church

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The eagle-shaped city

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The new roads of the city

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The art of maiolica

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The church and the monastery

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Church of St. Francis

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The works in the church

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

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The city within the city

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

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

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The interior and works of art

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Religious architecture

Luminous sacred spaces

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Staircase of Angels

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery