Imagine the ebullient glory of a vast ceiling mural from an Italian Baroque church brought down to size and hung on your living-room wall. In a series of beautiful and quietly perplexing paintings on ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — This low-lying, discreetly wealthy city tends to a restrained approach to art and design today: Its riverside shops are full of stark, spare furniture, and its renowned fashion ...

Ornate without feeling overdone, dramatic yet surprisingly livable, "recomposed Baroque" is emerging as a new way to embrace glamour without excess (well, maybe just a little excess). As interiors ...