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.

The Church of St. Benedict

A heritage of votive works

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

The Staircase of Angels

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The works in the church

The articulated interior spaces

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

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Reconstruction after the earthquake

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

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The interior and works of art

The new roads of the city

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

Religious architecture

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

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

St. Agatha and the candelore

The city within the city

A story of rebirth

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Luminous sacred spaces

The art of maiolica

The Benedictines’ library

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

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

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A stone garden

The expansion of space and changing reality

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Franciscan convent

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

One city, three sites

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The eagle-shaped city

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Church of St. Paul

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The two churches

A casket of precious works

The Palazzo dei due mori

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The palace, the town, the church

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The church and the college

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The church and the monastery

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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

City and nature

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The interior of the church: space and colour

The Church of St. Francis

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The city palace

Art in the cathedral

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix