Baroque Churches

  Welcome in 2025 to one of my most exciting posts ever -  about the "Sistine Chapel  of the Americas"   I know I am never going t...

  SA 4.0 MichaelKR I approach this post with caution : nothing I write can prepare you for the joyous sight of  this masterpiece. By traditi...

General view of the Cathedral  CC BY-SA 2.0 Mattana The  Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg will equal  Colloredo and his treatment of Mozart ...

 I hesitate before writing about this great building : it is in all the architecture books, revered and much visited - Borromini's maste...

After his election in 1641 Pope Innocent X had ambitions to make Piazza Navona the grandest of all in Rome. His family's (Pamphili) pala...

  Assumption of Our Lady   Egid Quirin Asam, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons A mo...

  After the Thirty Years War the Jesuits were given space in the Mala Strana and they started their convent building there in 1665 and in 16...