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Bacchus
Bacchus (c. 1595) painted by Master Baroque Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio -
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The Baroque Movement
The Baroque era can be divided into three different phases, the Early baroque, c.1590–c.1625, high baroque,
High Baroque.1625–c.1660,
late Baroque, c.1660–c.1725.
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Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria
Sir Peter Paul Rubens proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, -
The Union of Earth and Water
The Union of Earth and Water (1618) by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. -
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Painting by the Italian early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentilesch
completed between 1614–20 -
At the Market Stall
Louise Moillon was a female French painter in the Baroque era -
Judith Leyster Self-Portrait
Judith Leyster Self-Portrait, c. 1630
Judith Leyster (also known as Leijster) was the most renowned Dutch female artist of the Baroque era. -
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrandt Dutch painte -
Storm on the Lake of Galile
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Dutch painter
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–52) sculpture in white marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. -
Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter, individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist.
Las Meninas (1656)Las Meninas -
The Man from Artemino
Giovanna Garzoni female Italian painter who was prominent in Europe during the Baroque period -
The Dancing Couple
The Dancing Couple, by Jan Steen, Northern Baroque 1633 -
Girl with a Pearl Earring
17th-century Baroque Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer
The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. -
Beata Ludovica Albertoni
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian Baroque artist
Blessed Ludovica Albertoni 1671–74 -
Still-life with Sweets
Josefa de Óbidos one of the most prolific Baroque artists in Portugal -
Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles
Jules hardouin-mansart French Baroque architect
Charles le brun Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time",
Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles(1678–1684) -
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell was a popular English composer who wrote an English form of Baroque music.
Purcell by master of the English Baroque, John Closterman, probably 1695
Dido and Aeneas (1688) -
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel later British baroque composer
Water Music (1717),
Messiah (1741) -
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas
Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Quevedo was an adherent of the style known as conceptismo
Portrait of Quevedo (c. 1618) by Francisco Pacheco. Pacheco is famous for painting in the Mannerist and Early Baroque styles of art. -
Louis XIV King of France and Navarre by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701)
Louis XIV King of France and Navarre by Hyacinthe Rigaud French baroque painter(1701) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach German composer and musician of the Baroque period.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (1703–1707),
Brandenburg Concertos (1721),
St Matthew Passion (1727)
Portrait of Bach, aged 61, 1748 by Elias Gottlob Haussmann was a German painter in the late Baroque era. -
Trevi Fountain
Nicola Salvi design, completed by Pietro Bracci,. Rome
It is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and the most beautiful in the world. -
Palace of Versailles
Jules Hardouin Mansart, Louis Le Vau, André Le Nôtre (gardens) and many co-operators -
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio was a Influential painter and founder of realist Baroque aesthetic of the Early Baroque Period -
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
Carlo Maderno Baroque pioneer of Baroque architecture, mastered the façade of Saint Peter Basilica which is a mixture of Renaissance and Baroque. Baroque architect Giacomo della Porta and Michelangelo were also architects.
