Baroque Era Paintings & Artworks

Featured Baroque Fine Artists

Caravaggio born in 1571 in Milan, Italy. He died at the age of 39 in 1610. He was a pupil of Titian. He was reknowned in his lifetime as a brawler who was outlawed from Naples for killing a young man in a fight and survived an attempt on his life by some of the many enemies he had made, before dying of a fever on a journey to Rome in search of a pardon. Caravaggio is one of the key initiators of the Baroque school and one of the most important innovators in the use of the chiaroscuro technique of painting. [More...]

Peter Paul Rubens was born in 1577 in Siegen, Westphalia, in what is now present day Germany, to a Calvinist father and a Catholic mother. After his father died when he was 12, he and his mother moved to Antwerp in Belgium, where he was raised as a Catholic. He traveled widely in Italy studying the paintings of the masters of the Italian Renaissance. One of his most important students was Anthony Van Dyke. Stylistically, Rubens is considered to be one of the principal members of the Baroque movement. He died in 1640 from gout at the age of 62. [More...]

Rembrandt van Rijn was born in 1606 in Leiden, Netherlands. He died in 1669 at the age of 63 in Amsterdam. Initially creating paintings with Biblical themes, Rembrandt prospered early with commissions from the Hague court. He also won many commissions for single and group portraits from the Dutch burghers. Despite his success, Rembrandt suffered bankruptcy in 1656 due to overspending and poor financial management. His common law wife, Hendrickje Stoffels took control of his finances and managed to stave off his creditors. Rembrandt is credited with perfecting the technique of chiaroscuro, which justaposes light and shadow in a dramatic composition. [More...]