Castle Howard Celebrates Sir John Vanbrugh with ‘Staging the Baroque’ Exhibition
25 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Hailed as ‘the Rockstar of the English Baroque’ and ‘the original starchitect’
Tag: baroque
Review: Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure at The National Gallery
2 July 2013 • Mark Westall
The Dutch Golden Age of painting in the 17th century was marked by an explosion of different genres of painting from tempestuous seascapes to intimate still lifes, as they moved away from the religious works that had preceded them in the Baroque era.