Libraries have long been revered not only as repositories of knowledge but also as architectural masterpieces. From the ...

Rococo worked really well because it’s so effervescent.” All that’s within in a pretty tight band of 300 years on the continent and has nothing to do with 14th-century Scotland.

Baroque & Rococo : idea & image -- Setting the stage : social, cultural, & artistic institutions -- The Baroque church : setting for mystery, propaganda, & worship -- Sacred interiors : papal tombs, ...

In a handsome new book with a sky-high price, Baroque and Rococo in Latin America (Macmillan; $16.50), he gives a rich account in words and pictures of what he saw.