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 articulated interior spaces

The Monte delle Prestanze in the new city layout

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

A heritage of votive works

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

The interiors: diffused light and Byzantine relics

A compromise between Neoclassicism and Baroque

The art of maiolica

A unifying project for the city of Catania

The Palazzo dei due mori

The senses tell about Palazzo Beneventano

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Paolo

The Benedictines’ library

The Church of St. Julian on Via dei Crociferi

Altars, saints and sculptural works

A stone garden

The senses tell the story of the Church of San Benedetto

The Infiorata of Noto, a modern tradition

The interior of the church: space and colour

The new roads of the city

Palazzo Trigona: a building with a complex shape

Akrai and Syracuse: an unbreakable bond

The senses tell about Palazzo Ducezio

The triumph of Baroque: expansion of spaces

From the end of the world to rebirth from the rubble

The senses tell the Cathedral of Sant’Agata

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

The senses tell of Palazzo della Cancelleria

The dynamics of the Church of San Michele

San Domenico and Gagliardi’s work

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

The expansion of space and changing reality

The palace, the town, the church

Scenography and devotion for St. Agatha

The Church of Madonna della Stella

The city within the city

The casket of austerity under the great dome

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

Palazzo Trigona di Canicarao

City and nature

The church and the college

A story of rebirth

The illusion of light and the decorative splendour

Fountain of the Nymph Zizza: public water in the town

A new site for the church of San Giorgio

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

The smallest Greek theatre in the world

Virtuosity, decorations and altars

Baroque creativity: recurring themes

Reconstruction after the earthquake

Unusual iconographies: the Burgos crucifix

The senses tell of the Cathedral of San Pietro

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

Rebirth and urban planning of the city of Noto

A Nobel Prize in Modica

The eagle-shaped city

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

The Church of St. Paul

Luminous sacred spaces

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

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

The city palace

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

One city, three sites

The Franciscan convent

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

Scicli, the city of Baroque scenery

The beginning of an authentic Baroque conception

The Madonna dei Conadomini and the art of devotion

Palazzo della Cancelleria: from former stable to the Nicastro family

Majestic exteriors, grandiose interiors

Religious architecture

Madonna of the Militia: a singular warrior virgin

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

The Church of St. Benedict

The Church of St. Mary of the Mountain

The senses tell about Palazzo Trigona

The senses tell about Palazzo Zacco

Palazzo Zacco, a balance between sobriety and decoration

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

The works in the church

The Church of St. Francis

The senses tell the Church of San Domenico

St. Agatha and the candelore

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The two churches

The Antonino Uccello Birthplace Museum

Expansion, spatiality and light in the church of San Domenico

The Staircase of Angels

The church and the monastery

Garden of Novices and the restorations by Giancarlo De Carlo

Expanded spaces, stucco and colourful lights

The senses tell the Church of San Michele

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

Baroque and the loss of balance in the 16th century

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

Scenography, lights and colours of the cathedral

Art in the cathedral

The interior and works of art

The Monastery of the Benedictine nuns

Militello: The story of an enlightened fiefdom

The city of Modica, a balance between nature and urbanism

The senses tell the Cathedral of San Giorgio

The Church of St. John the Evangelist

A casket of precious works

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