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Building Picture Location Date Architect(s) St Peter's Basilica: Vatican City: 1506–1615 Michelangelo, Giacomo della Porta, Carlo Maderno: Urbanistic complex of the city of Valletta
As in the first half of the century, the art gallery of the benefactors of the Ospedale Maggiore collects the best examples of Milanese portraiture in the second half of the 17th century; through these paintings one can observe the evolution towards a more mature Baroque style: the best examples are attributed to Giuseppe Nuvolone. [76]
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. [1]
Image credits: Classic Art Memes (Humor) The Tate Gallery explains that classical or classic art are terms that became widespread in the 17th century and used to describe the arts and culture of ...
Complex in form and ornate with sculpture, the baldacchino serves as a great example of the Baroque ‘style’, massive and ornate, glorifying the church and the Catholic religion. This space is an example of quadratura, an attempt to create an illusion through architecture, painting, and sculpture. Painting and sculpture create an illusion of ...
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614–20, Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm, Uffizi, Florence. Italian Baroque art was a very prominent part of the Baroque art in painting, sculpture and other media, made in a period extending from the end of the sixteenth to the mid eighteenth centuries. [1]
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...
The following is a list of works of sculpture, architecture, and painting by the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The numbering follows Rudolph Wittkower's Catalogue, published in 1966 in Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. [1] [2] [3]