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 Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The works in the church

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

A story of rebirth

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

The city within the city

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The articulated interior spaces

The palace, the town, the church

St. Agatha and the candelore

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Paul

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

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

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

A heritage of votive works

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Church of St. Benedict

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

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

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The Palazzo dei due mori

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The interior and works of art

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The church and the monastery

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

One city, three sites

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

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

Luminous sacred spaces

A casket of precious works

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The casket of austerity under the great dome

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Church of St. Francis

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

A stone garden

The Franciscan convent

The interior of the church: space and colour

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The Staircase of Angels

City and nature

The city palace

Religious architecture

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

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

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

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

The eagle-shaped city

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

The new roads of the city

The art of maiolica

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Benedictines’ library

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The two churches

The church and the college

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

The expansion of space and changing reality

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work