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.

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The city palace

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

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

The Church of St. Benedict

The Benedictines’ library

A heritage of votive works

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Staircase of Angels

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Luminous sacred spaces

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

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

A stone garden

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The Church of Madonna della Stella

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

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

The interior and works of art

The Church of St. Francis

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Altars, saints and sculptural works

The casket of austerity under the great dome

A story of rebirth

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

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

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

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

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The city within the city

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

Art in the cathedral

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The new roads of the city

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The works in the church

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

The church and the monastery

A casket of precious works

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

The articulated interior spaces

The interior of the church: space and colour

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The Franciscan convent

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

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

The Church of St. Paul

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

One city, three sites

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The art of maiolica

Religious architecture

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

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

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

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

The palace, the town, the church

The expansion of space and changing reality

A Nobel Prize in Modica

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

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

The church and the college

The two churches

The Palazzo dei due mori

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

City and nature

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

The eagle-shaped city

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix