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Baroque art served as an extension of the influence of the Catholic Church, most often depicting historical and religious imagery through heightened realism. Judith is a figure that has been both embraced and rejected by the Catholic and Protestant denominations through time. [ 4 ]
The Young Sick Bacchus (Italian: Bacchino Malato), also known as the Sick Bacchus or the Self-Portrait as Bacchus, is an early self-portrait by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dated between 1593 and 1594. It now hangs in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
The Self Portrait of Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi was painted in the early 1630s. It currently hangs in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome. It is one of many paintings where Gentileschi depicts herself. Beyond self-portraits, her allegorical and religious paintings often featured herself in different guises.
The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). [1] The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. [2] It is one of Caravaggio’s more complex paintings, with four figures that were likely painted from ...
Lucretia is a painting by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It depicts Lucretia , the wife of Roman consul and general Collatinus , at the moment of her suicide. The decision to take her own life was made after she was blackmailed and raped by Sextus Tarquinius, a fellow soldier of Collatinus.
Self-Portrait as a Lute Player is one of many self-portrait paintings made by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It was created between 1615 and 1617 for the Medici family in Florence. [1] Today, it hangs in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, US.
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Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (1604–1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.Only since the turn of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of the outstanding female artist of Flemish Baroque painting, her works having been previously attributed to male artists, especially her brother Charles.