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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.

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The interior and works of art

The expansion of space and changing reality

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Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

A heritage of votive works

A casket of precious works

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The Church of Madonna della Stella

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

City and nature

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The articulated interior spaces

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Church of St. Paul

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The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Altars, saints and sculptural works

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The eagle-shaped city

The Palazzo dei due mori

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Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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Luminous sacred spaces

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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The Benedictines’ library

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A story of rebirth

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The art of maiolica

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Francis

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

St. Agatha and the candelore

The two churches

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

A Nobel Prize in Modica

Art in the cathedral

The Staircase of Angels

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

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

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

A stone garden

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The interior of the church: space and colour

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

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

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The church and the college

The church and the monastery

The works in the church

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The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

One city, three sites

The new roads of the city

The Church of St. Benedict

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

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

The city palace

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Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Religious architecture

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

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The city within the city

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The palace, the town, the church

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