The critical rap against Neapolitan Baroque painter Luca Giordano has always been that he was an artistic magpie. Extraordinarily prolific, the widely traveled 17th century painter borrowed from ...

The baroque ceiling turned out to be a false one that masked a fresco completed by Italian painters Francesco Pagano and Paolo de San Leocadio in 1481.

Artisans have been affixing plaster decorations to walls and ceilings for centuries--mostly in imitation of Greek and Roman bas-relief.

Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover an exquisite Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered up for more ...

Neil MacDonald's paintings, on view at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art in Cleveland, reinterpret the boiling energies of 17th-century Italian Baroque ceiling frescoes that impressed the ...

The fresco was covered up by a Baroque ceiling, believed to have been constructed around 1670, likely as a result of changing artistic tastes. Normally, baroque artists covering up an existing fresco ...