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 new roads of the city

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

A casket of precious works

A stone garden

The Staircase of Angels

The casket of austerity under the great dome

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

A heritage of votive works

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

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

The city within the city

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

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

The city palace

The Church of St. Benedict

St. Agatha and the candelore

Religious architecture

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The eagle-shaped city

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

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

Luminous sacred spaces

The articulated interior spaces

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

The palace, the town, the church

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The Franciscan convent

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

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

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

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

Reconstruction after the earthquake

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The church and the monastery

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The interior and works of art

Art in the cathedral

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The Palazzo dei due mori

The Benedictines’ library

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The works in the church

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

City and nature

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

One city, three sites

A story of rebirth

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

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

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

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

The two churches

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

The art of maiolica

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

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

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

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

The church and the college

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The interior of the church: space and colour

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A unifying project for the city of Catania

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The Church of St. Francis

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The expansion of space and changing reality

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century