LECTURE 3 "Going for Baroque"
Splendid Sicily: Art at the Crossroads of the...
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1h 13m
Too much was never enough in 17th- and 18th-century Palermo. Churches and palaces drip with marble, gold, and extravagant clouds of stucco. Experience the coloristic marvels of churches like Santa Caterina and the Gesu, and then delight in the all-white fantasies of Giacomo Serpotta at the Oratories of Santa Cita and San Lorenzo.
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