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.

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The church and the college

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

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

Art in the cathedral

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

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

The Staircase of Angels

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

One city, three sites

The Franciscan convent

The new roads of the city

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

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

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

The art of maiolica

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Palazzo dei due mori

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The palace, the town, the church

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

The city within the city

Altars, saints and sculptural works

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The Church of St. Benedict

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

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

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

A heritage of votive works

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

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

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

A casket of precious works

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

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

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

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

The Church of St. Francis

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

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

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The works in the church

The church and the monastery

St. Agatha and the candelore

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

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

The city palace

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

A story of rebirth

The interior of the church: space and colour

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

The articulated interior spaces

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

The eagle-shaped city

City and nature

Luminous sacred spaces

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

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

The two churches

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

The Church of St. Paul

The Benedictines’ library

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

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

The expansion of space and changing reality

Religious architecture

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

A stone garden

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

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The interior and works of art