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@

- 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






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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