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Baroque Art applies both to an artistic era, from about 1600 to 1750, and to a style of art that was more dramatic and dynamic in composition, combining the innovation of chiaroscuro (strong dark and light contrasts) with a more expressive and naturalistic treatment of the subject. The word baroque was originally a term of approbation, denoting the bizarre or strange. Baroque Art had its initial impetus from the Council of Trent (which sanctioned freer creative expression in the service of the divine) and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Painters from Catholic countries are more likely to exhibit Baroque style in all its flourish than the more sedate northern Protestant masters. Baroque art was influenced by the Italian Mannerists, Agostino Carracci (Italy, 1557-1602) and Annibale Carracci (Italy, 1560-1609), who had been influenced primarily by Titian. The two artists who most profoundly shaped the movement were Caravaggio (Italy, 1571-1610), who established the use of chiaroscuro and Peter Paul Rubens (Flanders, 1577-1640), who marked the expansion of the movement from an Italian to a European phenomenon. 
Significant Baroque artists who followed after them included Frans Hals (Holland, 1580-1666), Georges de la Tour (France, 1593-1652), Jacob Jordaens (Flanders, 1593-1678), Anthony Van Dyck (Flanders, 1599-1641), Diego Velasquez (Spain, 1599-1660), Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), and Jan Vermeer (Holland, 1632-1675). A counter-movement, that of French Classicism, sometimes called Baroque Classicism, was exemplified by Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594-1665) and the landscape artist Claude Lorrain (France, 1604/5-1682). Baroque art influenced the later Rococo and Romantic movements, while French Classicism influenced Neo-Classicism. Check out our
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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 Flanders (in current day Belgium), where he was raised as a Catholic. He traveled widely in Italy studying the paintings of the masters of the Italian Renaissance. Influenced by Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, 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...]
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Self Portrait with Isabella Brandt, His First Wife
by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
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St. Mary Magdalene or St. Thais in the Desert
by Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591-1652)
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Magdalen Contemplating
by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, 1591-1666)
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Virgin in Prayer
by Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi) (Italian, 1609-1685)
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