Baroque Art
“David” by Michelangelo, 1504
“David” by Bernini, 1623
Baroque Style of Art & Architecture 1600 – 1750 The more dramatic, the better! The “style” of absolutism. Counter-Reformation art. Should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.
Italian and Spanish Baroque
“The Calling of St. Matthew” by Caravaggio
“The Flagellation of Christ” by Caravaggio
“David and Goliath” by Caravaggio
“St. Francis in Ecstasy” Caravaggio, 1595
“Judith Slaying Holofernes” Gentileschi, 1620
“The Maids of Honor” Diego Velázquez
“The Ecstasy of St. Theresa” by Bernini
Flemish Baroque
“Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles” by Peter Paul Rubens 1622-25
“Descent from the Cross” by Peter Paul Rubens 1612
“The Elevation of the Cross” by Peter Paul Rubens 1610-11
Dutch Golden Age Painting
Dutch Golden Age Painting Historical Landscapes & Cityscapes Genre Painting Portraits Maritime Scenes Still Lifes
Historical Painting Most Prestigious Rembrandt & Pupils Historical Mythological Biblical Most Famous Artist(s): Rembrandt & Pupils Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Hannah Presenting Her Son Samuel to the Priest Eli (1665)
“Nightwatch” by Rembrandt
“Self Portrait” by Rembrandt
“Christ Preaching” etching by Rembrandt
“Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” by Rembrandt
“Masters of the Cloth Drapers Guild” by Rembrandt
“The Milkmaid” by Vermeer (1658)
Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft (1660–61)
Jacob van Ruisdael, The Windmill at Wijk (1670)
Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (c. 1665)
Judith Leyster Self-portrait at 20 (1630) Leyster was the second woman to join the Haarlem Painters Guild.
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Battle in 1573 between Dutch and Spanish ships on the Haarlemmermeer
Pieter Claesz (1597–1660), Still life with Musical Instruments (1623)
French Baroque
“Arcadian Shepherds” by Nicolas Pussin (1655)
“Louis XVI” Hyacinthe Rigauld
“Cardinal Richelieu” Philippe de Champaigne [1602-1674]
English Baroque
“Charles I at the Hunt” by Van Dyck