Baroque Paintings
1600-1750
Characteristics
Light & Darkness
Emotion
Diagonal Lines Movement
St. Ignatius
Wall Murals
Painters
Annibale Carraci
Agostino Carraci
Ludovico Carraci
Andrea Pozzo
Frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi The Apotheosis of St Ignatius
Mantegna Andrea Pozzo
(Renaissance) (Baroque)
Baroque
Influences
Baroque influences
Venetian Baroque
(Still Life)
Dutch Baroque
(Everyday life, Still Life)
Spanish Baroque
(Religious Subjects)
Phineas with the Boreads
(Sebastiano Ricci)
Madonna and Child The Night Watch
(Bartolome Esteban Murillo) (Rembrandt)
Painters
Rembrandt Harmenszoon
Van Rijn
● Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker
● one of the greatest storytellers in the
history of art, possessing an exceptional
ability to render people in their various
moods and dramatic guises.
● known as a painter of light and shade and
as an artist who favored an
uncompromising realism that would lead
some critics to claim that he preferred
ugliness to beauty.
Self-Portrait The Return
with Two Circles (1665) of the Prodigal Son (1669)
Peter Paul Rubens
● He is known for being “the prince of painters and
the painter of princes,”
● was a flamboyant Flemish grand master of art
born in 1577
● His work was highly influenced by historical and
mythological ideals
● his unique painting style came to be associated
with the Counter-Reformation.
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary The Garden of Love
Caravaggio
(Michelangelo de Merisi)
-died at 36
-Used normal people as his subjects
-Loved using light and darkness
David with the Head of Goliath
Saint Jerome Writing
The Calling of St. Matthew
Artemesia
Gentilischi
-Daughter of a painter
-Her works were influenced by her
father
-Member Accademia di Arte del
Disegno
-Specialized in painting pictures of
strong and suffering women from
myths, allegories, and the Bible-
victims, suicides, and warriors
Saint Cecilla
Susanna and the Elders
Madonna and Child
Judith Beheading Holofernes
Caravaggio
(Baroque)
Artemesia Gentileschi
Lucas Cranach
(Baroque)
(Renaissance)
