Major artists and their works

1. BAROQUE ART
2nd Quarter

2. BAROQUE ART
•Style that dominated
the art of Europe and
some Spanish and
Portuguese settlements
in the Americas during

3. BAROQUE ART
•Scientific discoveries
•Active trade and
colonization
•Religion
•Political situations

4. MAJOR
ARTISTSBaroque Art

5. CARAVAGGIO
•Michelangelo
Merisi da
Caravaggio
•1573-1610

6. THE
CALLING
OF SAINT
MATTHE
W

7. THE
CROWNING
WITH
THORNS

8. CHARACTERISTICS
OF ARTWORKS
•Swirling figures
•Chiaroscuro
•Symmetrical
•Tenebrism

9. RUBENS
•Peter Paul
Rubens
•1577 - 1640

10. PROMETHEU
S BOUND

11. VENUS AT A
MIRROR

12. CHARACTERISTICS
OF ARTWORKS
•Swirling,
curving,
and
diagonal
lines
•Tenebrism
•Emphasized
fair skin
•Asymmetric

13. VELASQUEZ
•Diego
Rodriguez
de Silva y
Velasquez
•1599 –

14. POPE
INNOCENT X

15. LAS
MENINAS

16. CHARACTERISTICS
OF ARTWORKS
•Form and content
•Imposing

17. REMBRANDT
•Rembrandt
Harmenszoon
van Rijn
•1606 – 1669

18. THE RETURN
OF THE
PRODIGAL
SON

19. THE
NIGHT
WATCH

20. CHARACTERISTICS
OF ARTWORKS
•Tenebrism
•Juxtapositio
n
•Rough
texture
•Light and
dark
•Pure colors

21. BERNINI
•Gian Lorenzo
Bernini
•1598 – 1680

22. APOLLO AND
DAPHNE

23. CHARACTERISTICS
OF ARTWORKS
•Passionate
expressions
•Lifelike
movement
•Symmetry and
rhythm
•Lines forms
and shapes;
unity
•Classical