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.

The expansion of space and changing reality

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Luminous sacred spaces

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The Church of Madonna della Stella

St. Agatha and the candelore

The articulated interior spaces

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

City and nature

The works in the church

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The Church of St. Francis

The Benedictines’ library

The city palace

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The Palazzo dei due mori

A casket of precious works

The eagle-shaped city

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The city within the city

The art of maiolica

The Church of St. Paul

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

The new roads of the city

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The two churches

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

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

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The church and the monastery

Art in the cathedral

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Staircase of Angels

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The interior of the church: space and colour

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

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

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

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

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

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

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

Reconstruction after the earthquake

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

A heritage of votive works

The church and the college

One city, three sites

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

The palace, the town, the church

A story of rebirth

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

A unifying project for the city of Catania

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

The Church of St. Benedict

Religious architecture

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

A stone garden

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The Franciscan convent

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The interior and works of art

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro