Baroque 1600-1750. In fine art, the term Baroque (derived from the Portuguese 'barocco'...

Baroque 1600-1750

• In fine art, the term Baroque (derived from the Portuguese 'barocco' meaning, 'irregular pearl or stone') describes a fairly complex idiom, originating in Rome, which flowered during the period c.1590-1720, and which embraced painting, and sculpture as well as architecture.

• After the idealism of the Renaissance (c.1400-1530), and the slightly 'forced' nature of Mannerism (c.1530-1600), Baroque art above all reflected the religious tensions of the age - notably the desire of the Catholic Church in Rome (as annunciated at the Council of Trent, 1545-63) to reassert itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.

• Thus it is almost synonymous with Catholic Counter-Reformation Art of the period.

Francesco Borromini San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Rome 1665-1676

Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa,Cornaro Chapel, 1647–1652 Santa Maria della Vittoria

Bernini, "David," 1623-1624, Rome, Galleria

Caravaggio The Calling of St Matthew 1599-1600

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Entombment, 1603-04

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1611–1612

The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne - Annibale Carracci - 1597

Guido Reni, Aurora, 1613-14

Guercino and Agostino Tassi. Aurora. Italian Baroque. 1621–23

The Triumph of the Name of Jesus, Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio), 1678–79

Pietro da Cortona, Triumph of Pope Urban VIII Barberini, 1632-39

Ribera,The Martyrdom of Saint Philip, 1639

Francisco Zurbarán, Saint Serapion 1628 oil on canvas

Diego Velazquez. Water Carrier of Seville. 1619

Philip IV of Spain - Velázquez 1644

The surrender of Breda | Diego Velázquez | 1635

Natalia Rivera Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656-7

Peter Paul Rubens The Raising of the Cross. 1610-1611. oil on panel.

The Consequence of War, 1637-38. Peter Rubens

Anthony van Dyck. Charles I Dismounted. 1635

Charles I on Horseback. Artist, Anthony van Dyck, 1637–38

Clara Peeters - Still life with a tart, roast chicken, bread

Allegory Of The Art Of Painting Vermeer Comallegory

Johannes Vermeer,The Milkmaid, 657–1658, Oil on canvas

Johannes Vermeer's "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter," 1662-1665.

Gerrit van Honthorst – Supper Party with Lute Player (1620) oil on canvas

The Calling of St. Matthew Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1621

1632 Rembrandt van Rijn - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp Oil on canvas

Rembrandt The Night Watch (1642)

Rembrandt, Portrait of his son Titus

Self-Portrait with Two Circles, 1660.

Rembrandt 'The Return of the Prodigal Son'(detail) 1663-65

The Hundred Guilder Print (Christ Preaching), ca. 1649

Sergeants of the St. Hadrian Civic Guard, painting by Frans Hals, c. 1633.

Judith Leyster Self Portrait 1630 oil on canvas

Cuyp, Distant View of Dordrecht, late 1640s

Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede by Jacob van Ruisdael, 1670

Jan Steen - The Feast of St. Nicholas, 1665 - 1668

Vanitas Still Life, 1630. Oil on panel

William Kalf, Willem Still-Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar, 1669

Poussia,Et in Arcadia Ego, 1640

Poussia, Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion (1648)

Claude Lorrain | Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629

Louis Le Nain ,Family of Country People. ca. 1640.

Portrait of Louis XIV of France, c.1701/02 | Hyacinthe Rigaud|

Architecture

Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, Paris, France

Apollon and the Nymphs 1666-73. Marble, life-size. Apollo Grotto, Versailles

Royal Chapel, Versailles Palace, Paris, France

Inigo Jones The Banqueting House c. 1619-1622

St Paul's Cathedral,1675-1700, London