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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 Staircase of Angels

Luminous sacred spaces

The interior of the church: space and colour

One city, three sites

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The new roads of the city

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

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

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The art of maiolica

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The interior and works of art

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Church of St. Benedict

A stone garden

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

City and nature

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The articulated interior spaces

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The city palace

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

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

A story of rebirth

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

A casket of precious works

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The Franciscan convent

The two churches

The Church of St. Francis

A heritage of votive works

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

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The Benedictines’ library

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

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

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The church and the college

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

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The Church of Madonna della Stella

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

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

The city within the city

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The works in the church

The church and the monastery

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The eagle-shaped city

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The palace, the town, the church

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Art in the cathedral

Religious architecture

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro