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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.
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).

Johannes Vermeer | Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665



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@

  1. Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Portrait of Pope Francis
  2. Sir Peter Paul Rubens | Baroque Era painter
  3. Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque style painter
  4. Giacomo Ceruti | Baroque / Genre / Portrait painter
  5. Guercino (1591-1666) Baroque Era painter
  6. Hendrick Goltzius | Mannerist painter
  7. Artemisia Gentileschi | Baroque Era painter
  8. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta | Rococo Era painter
  9. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) | Rococo Era painter
  10. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Rococo Era painter ⁽²⁾
  11. Orazio Gentileschi | Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, 1620-1626
  12. Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter
  13. Orazio Gentileschi | Baroque painter
  14. Artemisia Gentileschi | Mary Magdalene as Melancholy, 1622-1625
  15. Odd Nerdrum, 1944 | Visionary / Baroque style painter | Part.²
  16. Giovanna Garzonni | Baroque painter
  17. Johannes Vermeer | The Milkmaid /La Lattaia, c. 1657-1658
  18. Baroque sculpture in Rome | The Four Fountains | Le Quattro Fontane
  19. Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter
  20. Mariska Karto, 1971 | Baroque style Photographer
  21. Guido Reni (1575-1642) | Baroque Era painter
  22. Guido Reni | Baroque Era painter
  23. Onorio Marinari (1627-1715) | Sant’Agnese
  24. Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) | Baroque Era painter
  25. Pieter de Hooch | Baroque Era painter
  26. Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter | Part ²
  27. Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter
  28. Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter | Part ²
  29. Annibale Carracci | Baroque Era painter
  30. Rembrandt | Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630
  31. Simon Vouet | Baroque Era painter
  32. Georges de la Tour | Baroque Era painter
  33. Giulia Lama | Baroque painter
  34. Jan Steen | Baroque Era painter
  35. Nicolas Poussin | Baroque Era painter
  36. Aelbert Cuyp | Baroque Era painter
  37. Francisco De Zurbarán | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
  38. Francisco De Zurbarán | Baroque Era painter
  39. Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
  40. Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter
  41. Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
  42. José de Ribera | Baroque Era painter
  43. Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter ⁽³⁾
  44. Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾
  45. Luca Giordano | Baroque Era painter
  46. Bernardo Strozzi | Music players in the Baroque era
  47. Bernardo Strozzi | Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi
  48. Bernardo Strozzi | Baroque painter
  49. Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle
  50. Pietro Paolini | Baroque painter
  51. Elisabetta Sirani | Baroque painter
  52. Michael Sweerts | Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay (1658-1661)
  53. Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Renaissance style painter
  54. Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Venice painting
  55. Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Symbolist / Renaissance style painter
  56. Gerard ter Borch | Baroque Era painter
  57. Valentin De Boulogne | Baroque painter
  58. Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter | Part.2
  59. Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter | Drawings
  60. Baroque Era style | Sitemap
  61. Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Hands | Art in Detail
  62. Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Portraits | Art in Detail
  63. Valentin de Boulogne | The Crowning with Thorns, 1620 | Art in Detail
  64. Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1607 | Art in Detail
  65. Ilian Rachov, 1970 | Baroque Era style painter / Fashion desinger
  66. Vermeer | A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, c. 1670-1672 | Art in Detail
  67. Vermeer | Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter, 1667 | Art in Detail
  68. Aert van der Neer | Dutch Baroque Era painter
  69. Rembrandt | The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1668 | Art in Detail
  70. Rembrandt | Self-Portrait, 1658 | Art in Detail
  71. Rembrandt | Portrait of an Old Man, 1645 | Art in Detail
  72. Rembrandt | Susanna and the Elders, 1647 | Art in Detail
  73. Gerrit Dou | Baroque Era painter
  74. Johannes Vermeer | The Allegory of Painting, 1666 | Art in Detail
  75. Cristoforo Stati | Orpheus with Violin, 1600-1601 | Art in Detail
  76. Rembrandt | Venus and Cupid, 1640-1660 | Art in Detail
  77. Rembrandt | Saul and David, 1655-1660 | Art in Detail
  78. Rembrandt | Danaë, 1636 | Art in Detail
  79. Rembrandt | Adoration of the Magi, 1632 | Art in Detail
  80. Jacob Ferdinand Saeys | Architectural Fantasies painter
  81. Cornelis Van Poelenburgh | Dutch Golden Age Landscape painter
  82. Dirck van Delen | Architecture Fantasy painter
  83. Franz Christoph Janneck | Baroque Era style
  84. Aert de Gelder | Baroque Era painter | Rembrandt’s pupil
  85. Zdislav Beksinski | Utopian Realism /Surreal architecture painter
  86. Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Painting and Drawing | Baroque Era style
  87. Diego Velázquez | Baroque Era painter
  88. Rembrandt | The Jewish Bride /La sposa ebrea, 1667
  89. Albert Carrier-Belleuse | La Melodie, 1887
  90. Albert Carrier-Belleuse | Rembrandt sitting with book
  91. Stephen Cefalo, 1976 | Symbolist / Baroque style painter
  92. Ron Monsma | Figurative/Baroque style painter
  93. Benvenuto Cellini | Baroque / Mannerist style sculptor
  94. Benvenuto Cellini | Saliera or Salt Cellar, 1540-1543
  95. Rembrandt | Musical Company, 1626
  96. Rubens and Brueghel ~ The Five Senses Allegory | Art workshops
  97. Cornelis de Vos | Mother and child, 1624
  98. Agnolo Bronzino | Descent of Christ into Limbo, 1552
  99. Salvator Rosa | Allegory of Fortune, 1659
  100. Salvator Rosa | Baroque Era painter
  101. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm | Patron of the Arts
  102. Johannes Vermeer | The Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
  103. Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Quotes /Aforismi
  104. Close-Up of Agnolo Bronzino's paintings
  105. Carlo Dolci | Baroque Era painter
  106. Cornelis de Vos | Children portrait, c. 1600
  107. Museum Masterpieces [Part.4]
  108. David Leffel, 1931 | Baroque Era style painter
  109. Albert Carrier-Belleuse ~ Chryselephantine sculpture
  110. La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi /The fountain of the four rivers, 1651
  111. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
  112. Rembrandt | Oggi il compleanno ~ 407 anni della nascita
  113. La Reggia di Caserta ~ L'ultimo Barocco italiano
  114. Francesco Furini ~ Baroque Era painter
  115. Julianna ~ Neo-Classical Baroque painter
  116. Sir Anthony Van Dyck | Baroque Era painter
  117. Antinoo, il fascino della bellezza | Mostra alla Villa Adriana di Tivoli
  118. Kaspar von Zumbusch | Beethoven Monument, Vienna, 1880
  119. La Fontana di Trevi ~ Roma Barocca e Rococò
  120. Caravaggio | The Fortune teller, 1630
  121. La Plaza de España di Siviglia
  122. Olivia Beaumont | The Baroque Beasts paintings
  123. Matthias Grünewald ~ Renaissance painter
  124. Rembrandt van Rijn | Baroque painter
  125. Rembrandt ~ Self-portraits
  126. Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Art in Detail
  127. Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter | VideoArt
  128. Luke Hillestad
  129. Stephanie Rew, 1971 ~ Baroque style
  130. La Reggia di Versailles
  131. Agnolo Bronzino | Mannerist painter
  132. Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Baroque Era sculptor
  133. Johannes Vermeer | Baroque Era painter
  134. Adam Miller, 1979 | Renaissance / Baroque style painter
  135. Rembrandt van Rijn | Baroque painter | Portraits
  136. Stefano Maderno | Baroque era style sculptor







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