Epochs · Italy, Spain & Flanders
Baroque
c. 1600 – 1720
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Born partly out of the Counter-Reformation's call for art that moves the faithful, Baroque painting seizes the most dramatic instant of a story and stages it in raking light. Caravaggio's tenebrism, with figures emerging from darkness, spread across Europe and shaped painters from Naples to Seville.
Hallmarks
- Tenebrism and hard, directional light
- The climactic moment of a story
- Diagonal, dynamic compositions
- Direct emotional appeal to the viewer
Artists here
- Caravaggio · 1571 – 1610
- Peter Paul Rubens · 1577 – 1640
- Jusepe de Ribera · 1591 – 1652
- Artemisia Gentileschi · 1593 – c. 1656
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1598 – 1680
- Diego Velázquez · 1599 – 1660
