Art & Design Styles: Baroque

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes th...

To date, most criticism of print and digital technotexts – literary objects that foreground the role of their media of inscription – has emphasized...

The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose astonishing gifts were a...

During the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at th...

During the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at th...

Donated to the museum in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallery’s Education of the Virgin—depicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgin Mary to read—...

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encounter...

The controversial, ground-breaking biography of Caravaggio'A great read; it grabs, it kicks, it lives ... Feel the force of Caravaggio's cutting ed...

Fourth issue of the Journal of Baroque Studies The International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta has just published the f...

Although fewer than eighty of Caravaggio's painted works exist, they represent a critical moment in the development of European painting as the Ren...

Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most fascinating artists in history. Apprenticed at an early age to her father, the seventeenth-century painter...