Catania

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

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The illusion of marble: marble stucco

Marble stucco is an ancient technique that tends to imitate marble and is far cheaper.
The finish of this type of stucco can be of such high quality that it is indistinguishable from natural marble.

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The illusion of movement

The interior of the church creates a continuously moving illusory effect thanks to some of its characteristic elements: the lateral arcades, the vault and the apse arcade seems to bring the gaze towards the altar.
With its countless stuccoes and frescoes, the vault creates the sensation of participating in a whirling motion where art and architecture interact.
Nothing seems motionless in this space and there is a continuous tension throughout.

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

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

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The Benedictines’ library

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Luminous sacred spaces

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The articulated interior spaces

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The palace, the town, the church

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Church of St. Benedict

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

The Palazzo dei due mori

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The city palace

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

The two churches

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Staircase of Angels

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

A casket of precious works

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Art in the cathedral

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

A unifying project for the city of Catania

A story of rebirth

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The church and the college

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The interior and works of art

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

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

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The new roads of the city

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A heritage of votive works

One city, three sites

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The works in the church

The Franciscan convent

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

The art of maiolica

The church and the monastery

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

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Church of St. Francis

The expansion of space and changing reality

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The city within the city

Reconstruction after the earthquake

City and nature

A stone garden

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

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

The eagle-shaped city

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Religious architecture