Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

Throughout the era, foreign architects were sponsored to work in the ... role in the architecture of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. But outside architecture, the Baroque also influenced other ...

Just like the architecture of the time ... Naomi: This is an organ, a popular instrument of the Baroque period. It’s a little bit like woodwind or brass instruments, because it uses air to ...

Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation, an effort by the Catholic Church to respond to the rising challenge of Protestantism across Europe. Church leaders used ...