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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 ]
He painted portraits, history paintings and landscapes, but came to specialize in rural scenes with more animals than human figures. Noah's ark and the animals entering the Ark was a favourite subject of his, [ 3 ] and he devised a number of other new subjects from the early parts of the Old Testament with the patriarchs and their animals.
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 as a Lute Player was created after Gentileschi was married and moved from Rome to Florence after a fourteen-month rape trial against Agostino Tassi. [9] [6] Self-Portrait as a Lute Player and other self-portraits of Gentileschi were painted for private collections and allowed her to express her wit and cultural knowledge. [6]
Self-portrait (c. 1645), oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm., (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg) Portrait of Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1656 –60), oil on canvas, 66 x 50.5 cm., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. In 1640, Rosa met Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1620 –1696) in Florence. Lucrezia was a married woman, whose husband had left the city and abandoned her ...
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a 1615–1617 painting by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, showing the artist in the guise of Catherine of Alexandria. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London , which purchased it in 2018 for £3.6 million, including about £2.7 million from its American ...
The last self portrait that Utermohlen used a mirror for, [95] Self Portrait (With Easel) (1998) uses the same pose as a 1955 self-portrait. Polini states that this was his desire to "experience again the old motions of painting". [96] Erased Self Portrait (1999) [e] was his last self-portrait using a paint brush. [98]
This style was influenced by Anthony van Dyck as well as by French models of portrait painting. [3] The French influence is seen in the more static approach as opposed to the dynamic quality of Flemish Baroque portrait paintings. [5] Among his religious works is the altarpiece representing Calvary in the St. Gummarus church in Lier, Belgium.