- Baroque painting
Baroque painting is the
painting associated with theBaroque cultural movement , a movement often identified with the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist andProtestant states.Course
The
Council of Trent (1545-63), in which theRoman Catholic Church answered many questions of internal reform raised by both Protestants and by those who had remained inside the Catholic Church, addressed the representational arts by demanding thatpainting s andsculpture s in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed..However, although religious painting,
history painting ,allegories , andportraits were still considered the most noble subjects,landscape ,still life , and genre scenes were also very common.Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring:
Michelangelo , working in theHigh Renaissance , shows his David composed and still before he battlesGoliath ;Bernini 's baroque David is caught in the act of hurling the stone at the giant. Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance.:"See also
Baroque illusionistic painting ":"See "Living With Art, eighth edition by Mark Getlein" for information on some of the above artists."Notable Baroque painters
Dutch
*Rembrandt (1606-1669)
*Frans Hals (1580-1666)
*Ruisdael (1628-1682)
*Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
*Jan Steen (1626-1679)Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
*Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
*Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)
*Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)
*Frans Snyders (1579-1657)
*David Teniers the Younger (1610-1691)French
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Jean de Beaugrand (1584-1640)
*Georges de La Tour (1593-1652)
*Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
*Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)
*Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)Italian
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Caravaggio (1571-1610)
*Guercino (1591-1666)
*Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
*Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639)
*Artemisia Gentileschi (1592-1652/53)
*Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)
*Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619)Portuguese
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Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684)panish
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Francisco Ribalta (1565 - 1628)
*José de Ribera , "Lo Spagnoletto" (1591 - 1652)
*Francisco Zurbarán (1598 - 1664)
*Diego Velázquez (1599 - 1660)
*Alonso Cano (1601 - 1667)
*Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617 - 1682)
*Juan de Valdés Leal (1622 - 1690)
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