Baroque Art (1600-1800)

•The term Baroque was derived from the

Portuguese word “barocco” which
means “irregularly shaped pearl or
stone.” It describes a fairly complex
idiom and focuses on painting,
sculpture, as well as architecture
 Famous Baroque Artworks and Artists
• Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio (1571-
1610)
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1640)
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
• Diego Velasquez (1599- 1660)
 Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da
Caravaggio (1571- 1610)
• He was better known as Caravaggio. He was an Italian
artist who wanted to deviate from the classical masters
of the Renaissance.
• He was an outcast in his society, because of his own
actions and the lack of modesty and reverence for
religious subjects in his own paintings
• Among his famous paintings were: Supper at Emmaus,
Conversion of St. Paul, and Entombment of Christ.
 MICHELANGELO MERISI
AMERIGHI DA CARAVAGGIO
Super at Emmaus
Entombment of Christ
 Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
• Bernini was an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist. He
practiced
architecture, and sculpture, painting, stage design, and was also a
playwright.
• He was also the last in the list of the dazzling universal geniuses. As
a
prodigy, his first artworks date from his 8th birthday
. Among his early works were: The Goat Amalthea with the Infant
Jupiter and a Faun, Damned Soul, and the Blessed Soul. He made a
sculpture of “David” was for Cardinal Borghese which is strikingly
different from Michelangelo’s David because it shows the
differences between Renaissance and the Baroque periods.
• He was the greatest Baroque sculptor and
architect as seen in his design of the Piazza
San Pietro in front of the Basilica. It
is one of his most innovative and successful
architectural designs.
• The famous “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” was his
greatest achievement and the Colonade of
the Piazza of St. Peter’s Rome.
GIAN LORENZO BERNINI
PIAZZA SAN PIETRO
ECSTASY OF ST. TERESA
BLESSED SOUL
 Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1640)
• Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was well
known for his paintings of mythical and figurative
subjects, landscapes, portraits, and Counter-
Reformation altarpieces.
• His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects,
history paintings of magical creatures, and hunt scenes.
• His famous works were: Samson and Delilah, Landscape
with a Tower, Portrait of Helene Fourment, and The
Three Graces
PETER PAUL RUBENS
PORTRAIT OF HELENE FOURMENT
SAMSON AND DELILAH
LANDSCAPE WITH A TOWER
THE THREE GRACES
 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-
1669)
• Rembrandt was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter and
etcher.
• He is generally considered as one of the greatest
painters and printmakers in European art.
• He followed no particular faith, but was interested in
spiritual values and often chooses religious subjects.
• Rembrandt shares with Rubens the revolution whereby
painting came to depict the more personal aspects of
the painter: his own home and his family.
•No artist has painted himself as often as
did Rembrandt.
•His concept of himself continued to
deepen in grasp and subtlety, while his
technique grew more daring.
•His well- known work was his “Self
portrait in Old Age”
SELF PORTRAIT
 Diego Velasquez (1599- 1660)
• Velasquez of Spain developed out of the Baroque.
• He was one of the finest masters of composition and
one of the most important painters of the Spanish
Golden Age.
• He worked out solutions to pictorial problems of
design that transcend the style of any period.
• Velasquez was the case of a painter who discovered
his avocation almost at the very start of his career
• The passion for still life frequently emerges in Velasquez’s
art.
• His famous works were: The Surrender of Breda, Las
Meninas (The maids of honour), Los Barachos (The
Drinker), and Maria Theresa
• He created this work four years before his death and served
as an outstanding example of the European baroque period
of art. Margaret Theresa, the eldest daughter of the new
Queen, appears to be the subject of Las Meninas but in
looking at the various view points of the painting, it was
unclear as to who or what was the true subject; it maybe
the royal daughter or the painter himself
 LAS MENINAS
THE MAID OF HONOUR
THE SURRENDER OF BREDA
LOAS BARACHOS