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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 new roads of the city

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The interior of the church: space and colour

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Franciscan convent

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

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

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

City and nature

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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

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

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The art of maiolica

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

Altars, saints and sculptural works

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

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The city within the city

Art in the cathedral

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Church of St. Paul

The church and the monastery

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The church and the college

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

A stone garden

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The articulated interior spaces

The Church of St. Francis

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

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

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The palace, the town, the church

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

A heritage of votive works

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Palazzo dei due mori

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

The Benedictines’ library

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The Staircase of Angels

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The works in the church

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The interior and works of art

St. Agatha and the candelore

The Church of St. Benedict

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The two churches

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

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 senses tell the story of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista

Religious architecture

The casket of austerity under the great dome

A story of rebirth

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The eagle-shaped city

Luminous sacred spaces

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

One city, three sites

A casket of precious works

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The city palace

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata