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The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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Stuccoes, floors and geometric decorations

The interior of the church is defined by numerous decorations featuring a geometric design. For example, the floor is made with two-tone tiles and is inscribed within the elliptical plan.
The apsidal vault is decorated with small octagons, and the frescoes on the vault are divided by bands that echo the pattern of the small octagons on the apsidal vault.
It is interesting to note how all these geometric elements, with their simple shapes, give a sense of order within the dynamic spatiality typical of Baroque church interiors.

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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Religious architecture

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The eagle-shaped city

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San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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The city palace

The church and the monastery

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City and nature

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The two churches

The church and the college

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The Church of St. Benedict

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

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The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

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The Benedictines’ library

St. Agatha and the candelore

The city within the city

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A casket of precious works

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The Staircase of Angels

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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The Church of St. Paul

A story of rebirth

A heritage of votive works

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Franciscan convent

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The articulated interior spaces

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

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Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The new roads of the city

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The expansion of space and changing reality

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One city, three sites

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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The palace, the town, the church

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

The art of maiolica

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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Luminous sacred spaces

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