Rembrandt Van Rijn

 Known for being one the

worlds greatest painter,
Rembrandt was born in 1609
in Leiden, Netherlands.
 In his religious works, he
often chose subject that were
uncommon in Catholic art,
focusing on the human and
even the intimately personal
aspects of old and new
testament stories.
 Rembrandt died in October 4,
1669 at the age of 63 , but his
life wasn’t in vain because he
made marvelous artwork that
showed the bible in new
ways.
 Rembrandt’s famous artwork

Christ Preaching: The

Hundred-Guilder

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Michelangelo Merisi aka
Carvaggio
 Born in 1571, the leading
painter of the 17th Century,
Carvaggio flouted
renaissance artistic
conventions.
 He flouted the law. He was
arrested for the violent acts
that ranged from throwing a
plate at a taverns keeper to
murder.
 He killed a tennis player in
1606 he was forced to flee
Rome.
 In his paintings, Carvaggio
dramatized events with strong
contrasts of light and dark
that give his figures a
sculptural presence.
 He died in 1610.
Caravaggio's Painting

The Crucifixion of St. Peter 1601

Peter Paul Rubens
 He established his
reputation in the courts of
Europe. He was fluent in six
language and traveled widely
as a diplomat and an art dealer
her royal patrons in Italy,
England and France.
 Peter Paul Rubens (June 28,
1577 - May 30, 1640) was a
prolific seventeenth-century
Flemish Baroque painter,
and a proponent of an
exuberant Baroque style that
emphasized movement, color,
and sensuality.
 Diego Velázquez
 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a

Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of

King Philip IV, and one of the most important
painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an
individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque
period. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes
of historical and cultural significance, he painted
scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other
notable European figures, and commoners,
culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las
Meninas (1656).
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
 was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in
the world of architecture, he was, also and even more
prominently, the leading sculptor of his age, credited with
creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has
commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be
to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is
instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and
vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful...." In
addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and
a man of the theater: he wrote, directed and acted in plays
(mostly Carnival satires), also designing stage sets and
theatrical machinery, as well as a wide variety of decorative
art objects including lamps, tables, mirrors, and even
coaches. As architect and city planner, he designed both
secular buildings and churches and chapels, as well as
massive works combining both architecture and sculpture,
especially elaborate public fountains and funerary
monuments and a whole series of temporary structures (in
stucco and wood) for funerals and festivals.