Baroque painting 52688 220070389 2008-06-18T03:47:10Z PlankBot 7310603 Robot-assisted disambiguation: Populist - Changed link(s) to [[Populism]] {{Unreferenced|date=March 2007}} '''Baroque painting''' is the [[painting]] associated with the [[Baroque]] [[cultural movement]], a movement often identified with the existence of important Baroque art and [[Baroque architecture|architecture]] in non-absolutist and [[Protestant]] states. == Course == The [[Council of Trent]] (1545-63), in which the [[Roman Catholic Church]] answered many questions of internal reform raised by both [[Protestantism|Protestants]] and by those who had remained inside the Catholic Church, addressed the representational arts by demanding that [[painting]]s and [[sculpture]]s in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed. [[Image:JosefaObidos1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Nativity of Jesus|''Nativity'']] by [[Josefa de Óbidos]], [[1669]], [[National Museum of Ancient Art]], [[Lisbon]]]] Due to this, Baroque art tends to focus on Saints, the Virgin Mary, and other well known Bible stories. This turn toward a [[Populism|populist]] conception of the function of ecclesiastical art is seen by many [[Art history|art historians]] as driving the innovations of [[Michelangelo Merisi|Caravaggio]] and the [[Carracci]] brothers, all of whom were working (and competing for commissions) in Rome around [[1600]]. However, although [[sacred art|religious painting]], [[history painting]], [[allegories]], and [[portraits]] were still considered the most noble subjects, [[landscape]], [[still life]], and genre scenes were also very common. Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring: [[Michelangelo]], working in the [[High Renaissance]], shows his [[David (Michelangelo)|David]] composed and still before he battles [[Goliath]]; [[Bernini]]'s baroque [[David (Bernini)|David]] is caught in the act of hurling the stone at the giant. Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance. :''See also [[Baroque illusionistic painting]]'' ==Notable Baroque painters== ===Dutch=== *[[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]] (1606-1669) *[[Frans Hals]] (1580-1666) *[[Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael|Ruisdael]] (1628-1682) *[[Johannes Vermeer]] (1632-1675) *[[Jan Steen]] (1626-1679) ===Flemish=== *[[Peter Paul Rubens]] (1577-1640) *[[Anthony van Dyck]] (1599-1641) *[[Jacob Jordaens]] (1593-1678) *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] (1568-1625) *[[Frans Snyders]] (1579-1657) *[[David Teniers the Younger]] (1610-1691) ===French=== *[[Jean de Beaugrand]] (1584-1640) *[[Georges de La Tour]] (1593-1652) *[[Claude Lorrain]] (1600-1682) *[[Hyacinthe Rigaud]] (1659-1743) *[[Nicolas Poussin]] (1594-1665) ===Italian=== *[[Caravaggio]] (1571-1610) *[[Guercino]] (1591-1666) *[[Annibale Carracci]] (1560-1609) *[[Orazio Gentileschi]] (1563-1639) *[[Artemisia Gentileschi]] (1592-1652/53) *[[Agostino Carracci]] (1557-1602) *[[Ludovico Carracci]] (1555-1619) ===Portuguese=== *[[Josefa de Óbidos]] (1630-1684) ===Spanish=== *[[Francisco Ribalta]] (1565 - 1628) *[[José de Ribera]], ''Lo Spagnoletto'' (1591 - 1652) *[[Francisco Zurbarán]] (1598 - 1664) *[[Diego Velázquez]] (1599 - 1660) *[[Alonso Cano]] (1601 - 1667) *[[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]] (1617 - 1682) *[[Juan de Valdés Leal]] (1622 - 1690) [[Category:Baroque painting| ]] [[Category:art history]] [[ca:Pintura barroca]] [[hr:Barokno slikarstvo]] [[mk:Барокна уметност]] [[sk:Barokové maliarstvo]] [[sr:Сликарство барока]]