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Baroque was the principal European style in the visual arts of the 17th century.
The term covers various national styles that range from the complex and dramatic Italian art of the 17th century to the restrained genre scenes, still-lifes and portraits characteristic of the Dutch Baroque.
In Italy, Caravaggio painted altarpieces and introduced innovations such as dramatic lighting effects that influenced painters like Artemisia Gentileschi. Other artists, such as the Giovanni Battista Gaulli and Pietro da Cortona, executed illusionistic ceiling paintings.

Johannes Vermeer | Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665


Gianlorenzo Bernini, the most celebrated Baroque artist in Rome, produced the famous baldacchino (central altar) of St Peter’s and groundbreaking sculptural works such as Apollo and Daphne.
In Spain, Francisco de Zurbarán executed pious religious paintings, and Diego Velázquez became the great painter of the Spanish Baroque.
In northern Europe, the Netherlands was divided into two parts, the Northern Netherlands (present day Netherlands) and the Southern Netherlands (present day Belgium and part of France), each usually referred to as Holland (North) and Flanders (South).

Works such as the flower still-lifes of Rachel Ruysch, Johannes Vermeer’s intimate genre pictures, and Rembrandt’s moving religious paintings and penetrating portraits illustrate these emerging types of art.

In France, art conveyed the power and prestige of the monarchy and predominately utilized the classicism of the Greco-Roman tradition.
The most extensive architectural project of the 17th century was Versailles, both its palace and gardens, in which the classical style was used to convey the absolutist power of the French monarchy under Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

Many of the concerns of Baroque artists, such as the direct observation of the world around them, emotional and dramatic expression, and the manipulation of light and colour, impacted later styles such as Neo-classicism and Romanticism. | © Oxford University Press


Peter Paul Rubens and his workshop dominated the art of Flanders with the creation of dramatic and powerful religious altarpieces and portraits of the ruling families of Italy and France.
One such example is the elaborate allegorical personification series for Marie de’ Medici. Landscape, still-life and genre painting were the main types of works produced for the Dutch market.

Baroque Artists at Tutt'Art@

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Portrait of Pope Francis
Sir Peter Paul Rubens | Baroque Era painter
Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque style painter
Giacomo Ceruti | Baroque / Genre / Portrait painter
Guercino (1591-1666) Baroque Era painter
Hendrick Goltzius | Mannerist painter
Artemisia Gentileschi | Baroque Era painter
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta | Rococo Era painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) | Rococo Era painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Rococo Era painter ⁽²⁾
Orazio Gentileschi | Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, 1620-1626
Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter
Orazio Gentileschi | Baroque painter
Artemisia Gentileschi | Mary Magdalene as Melancholy, 1622-1625
Odd Nerdrum, 1944 | Visionary / Baroque style painter | Part.²
Giovanna Garzonni | Baroque painter
Johannes Vermeer | The Milkmaid /La Lattaia, c. 1657-1658
Baroque sculpture in Rome | The Four Fountains | Le Quattro Fontane
Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter
Mariska Karto, 1971 | Baroque style Photographer
Guido Reni (1575-1642) | Baroque Era painter
Guido Reni | Baroque Era painter
Onorio Marinari (1627-1715) | Sant’Agnese
Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) | Baroque Era painter
Pieter de Hooch | Baroque Era painter
Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter | Part ²
Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter
Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter | Part ²
Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter
Rembrandt | Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630
Simon Vouet | Baroque Era painter
Georges de la Tour | Baroque Era painter
Giulia Lama | Baroque painter
Jan Steen | Baroque Era painter
Nicolas Poussin | Baroque Era painter
Aelbert Cuyp | Baroque Era painter
Francisco De Zurbarán | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
Francisco De Zurbarán | Baroque Era painter
Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter
Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
José de Ribera | Baroque Era painter
Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter ⁽³⁾
Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter
Bernardo Strozzi | Music players in the Baroque era
Bernardo Strozzi | Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi
Bernardo Strozzi | Baroque painter
Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle
Pietro Paolini | Baroque painter
Elisabetta Sirani | Baroque painter
Michael Sweerts | Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay (1658-1661)
Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Renaissance style painter
Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Venice painting
Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Symbolist / Renaissance style painter
Gerard ter Borch | Baroque Era painter
Valentin De Boulogne | Baroque painter
Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter | Part.2
Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter | Drawings
Baroque Era style | Sitemap
Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Hands | Art in Detail
Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Portraits | Art in Detail
Valentin de Boulogne | The Crowning with Thorns, 1620 | Art in Detail
Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1607 | Art in Detail
Ilian Rachov, 1970 | Baroque Era style painter / Fashion desinger
Vermeer | A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, c. 1670-1672 | Art in Detail
Vermeer | Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter, 1667 | Art in Detail
Aert van der Neer | Dutch Baroque Era painter
Rembrandt | The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1668 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Self-Portrait, 1658 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Portrait of an Old Man, 1645 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Susanna and the Elders, 1647 | Art in Detail
Gerrit Dou | Baroque Era painter
Johannes Vermeer | The Allegory of Painting, 1666 | Art in Detail
Cristoforo Stati | Orpheus with Violin, 1600-1601 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Venus and Cupid, 1640-1660 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Saul and David, 1655-1660 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Danaë, 1636 | Art in Detail
Rembrandt | Adoration of the Magi, 1632 | Art in Detail
Jacob Ferdinand Saeys | Architectural Fantasies painter
Cornelis Van Poelenburgh | Dutch Golden Age Landscape painter
Dirck van Delen | Architecture Fantasy painter
Franz Christoph Janneck | Baroque Era style
Aert de Gelder | Baroque Era painter | Rembrandt’s pupil
Zdislav Beksinski | Utopian Realism /Surreal architecture painter
Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Painting and Drawing | Baroque Era style
Diego Velázquez | Baroque Era painter
Rembrandt | The Jewish Bride /La sposa ebrea, 1667
Albert Carrier-Belleuse | La Melodie, 1887
Albert Carrier-Belleuse | Rembrandt sitting with book
Stephen Cefalo, 1976 | Symbolist / Baroque style painter
Ron Monsma | Figurative/Baroque style painter
Benvenuto Cellini | Baroque / Mannerist style sculptor
Benvenuto Cellini | Saliera or Salt Cellar, 1540-1543
Rembrandt | Musical Company, 1626
Rubens and Brueghel | The Five Senses Allegory | Art workshops
Cornelis de Vos | Mother and child, 1624
Agnolo Bronzino | Descent of Christ into Limbo, 1552
Salvator Rosa | Allegory of Fortune, 1659
Salvator Rosa | Baroque Era painter
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm | Patron of the Arts
Johannes Vermeer | The Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Quotes /Aforismi
Close-Up of Agnolo Bronzino's paintings
Carlo Dolci | Baroque Era painter
Cornelis de Vos | Children portrait, c. 1600
Museum Masterpieces [Part.4]
David Leffel, 1931 | Baroque Era style painter
Albert Carrier-Belleuse | Chryselephantine sculpture
La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi /The fountain of the four rivers, 1651
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Rembrandt | Oggi il compleanno | 407 anni della nascita
La Reggia di Caserta | L'ultimo Barocco italiano
Francesco Furini | Baroque Era painter
Julianna | Neo-Classical Baroque painter
Sir Anthony Van Dyck | Baroque Era painter
Antinoo, il fascino della bellezza | Mostra alla Villa Adriana di Tivoli
Kaspar von Zumbusch | Beethoven Monument, Vienna, 1880
La Fontana di Trevi | Roma Barocca e Rococò
Caravaggio | The Fortune teller, 1630
La Plaza de España di Siviglia
Olivia Beaumont | The Baroque Beasts paintings
Matthias Grünewald | Renaissance painter
Rembrandt van Rijn | Baroque painter
Rembrandt | Self-portraits
Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Art in Detail
Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter | VideoArt
Luke Hillestad
Stephanie Rew, 1971 | Baroque style
La Reggia di Versailles
Agnolo Bronzino | Mannerist painter
Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Baroque Era sculptor
Johannes Vermeer | Baroque Era painter
Adam Miller, 1979 | Renaissance / Baroque style painter
Rembrandt van Rijn | Baroque painter | Portraits
Stefano Maderno | Baroque era style sculptor
The Ladies of the Baroque | Part 1
The Ladies of the Baroque | Part 2
The Ladies of the Baroque | Part 3








Il Barocco era lo stile dominante nell'arte e nell'architettura del diciassettesimo secolo, caratterizzato da fiducia in se stessi, dinamismo e un approccio realistico alla rappresentazione.
Al suo apice a Roma tra il 1630 e il 1680, il barocco è particolarmente associato alla controriforma cattolica.
Il suo movimento dinamico, il suo audace realismo (dando agli spettatori l'impressione di assistere a un evento reale) e l'attrazione emotiva diretta erano ideali per proclamare lo spirito rinvigorito della Chiesa cattolica.
Sebbene originario di Roma, il barocco è stato influente in tutta Europa.


Era anche usato per rappresentare molti temi non religiosi e può essere visto in ritratti, nature morte e soggetti mitici.
I più grandi esponenti includono lo scultore e l'architetto Bernini a Roma; e nel nord Europa, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, le cui decorazioni a soffitto commissionate da Charles I (Stuart) per la Banqueting Hall di Londra sono ancora in vigore.
Il grande allievo di Rubens, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, lavorò anche in stile barocco in Gran Bretagna e fu pittore di corte di Carlo dal 1632 fino alla sua morte nel 1641.
I seguaci britannici includono William Dobson, Sir Peter Lely, Jacob Huysmans, Sir Godfrey Kneller e pittori di muro e decorazioni sul soffitto come Antonio Verrio e Sir James Thornhill. | © Tate, London


Antonio Vivaldi - Baroque composer

Claudio Monteverdio (1640) by Bernardo Strozzi

Domenico Scarlatti (1738) by Domingo Antonio Velasco

Georg Friedrich Händel (1730) by Philippe Mercier

Johann Sebastian Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann

Peter Paul Rubens | Galileo Galilei, 1630

Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765) Musical Fête, 1747