Art & Design Styles: Baroque

His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions...

His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions...

Magritte, Bacon, Ensor, Moore, Jordaens, Rubens These were just some of the world-famous names on display at the MAS. The not-to-be-missed exhibit...

Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draughtsman, as well as a valued diplomat. Th...

Über die berühmten Stichfolgen des im Jahre 1700 in Augsburg geborenen und 1761 in Wien verstorbenen Vedutenzeichners und Kupferstechers Salomon Kl...

The Man with the Slouch Hat by Frans Hals is one of the best-known masterpieces of Kassels Picture Gallery. During his visit in 1907 Lovis Corinth...

A unique opportunity to see rare and beautiful drawings by some of the biggest names in European art. Chatsworth House in Derbyshire holds one of t...

The palaces built in Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are some of the most magnificent buildings in Europe yet they remain relativ...

This book focuses on key monuments of the Baroque style, which varies in different European contexts. It is intended to affirm the existence of ind...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examinatio...

The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their...

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this ...

Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijns radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshri...

A complete history of Bohemian architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fo...

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684) was one of the best still-life painters of the 17th century. His work, which is enchanting to the eye, has always ...

Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours...

The rediscovery of a Baroque masterpiece by the venerable Italian painter In 2021, a painting was offered at a Madrid auction houses at a starting...