BAROQUE PERIOD Report by: Danielle Griengo
ARTISTS
SIR PETER PAUL
RUBENS
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS
• 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640
• Sir Peter Paul Rubens is a Flemish Artist and is considered the most influential artist of Flemish
Baroque tradition.
•Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His
unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, which
followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens
specialized in making altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and
allegorical subjects.
• Born in the city of Siegen to Jan Rubens and Maria Pypelincks. Rubens was a classically educated
humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England.
• Rubens was a prolific artist. The catalogue of his works by Michael Jaffé lists 1,403 pieces, excluding
numerous copies made in his workshop.
• His commissioned works were mostly "history paintings", which included religious and mythological
subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life
painted several landscapes.
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DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE
SILVA Y VELAZQUEZ
DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE SILVA
Y VELAZQUEZ
• Baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660
• Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most
important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the
contemporary Baroque period.
• He began to paint in a precise tenebrist style, later developing a freer manner
characterized by bold brushwork. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of
historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal
family and commoners, culminating in his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656).
•Velázquez's artwork became a model for 19th century realist and impressionist painters.
Since then, famous modern artists, including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Francis
Bacon, have paid tribute to Velázquez by recreating several of his most famous works.
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REMBRANDT
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON
VAN RIJN
• 15 July 1606– 4 October 1669
• Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally
considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject
matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and
mythological themes as well as animal studies.
• His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch
Golden Age, when Dutch art (especially Dutch painting), although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style
that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres.
• Rembrandt never went abroad, but he was considerably influenced by the work of the Italian masters and
Netherlandish artists who had studied in Italy, like Pieter Lastman, the Utrecht Caravaggists, and Flemish
Baroque Peter Paul Rubens. Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were
marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his
lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters.
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GIAN LORENZO
BERNINI
GIAN LORENZO BERNINI
• 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680 also known as Giovanni Bernini
• Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was, also and even
more prominently, the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.
•In addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and a man of the theater: he wrote, directed
and acted in plays (mostly Carnival satires), for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery.
He produced designs as well for a wide variety of decorative art objects including lamps, tables,
mirrors, and even coaches.
•His broad technical versatility, boundless compositional inventiveness and sheer skill in manipulating
marble ensured that he would be considered a worthy successor of Michelangelo, far outshining other
sculptors of his generation. His talent extended beyond the confines of sculpture to a consideration of
the setting in which it would be situated; his ability to synthesize sculpture, painting, and architecture
into a coherent conceptual and visual whole has been termed by the late art historian Irving Lavin the
"unity of the visual arts".
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