Style
Baroque & Dutch Golden Age
71 paintings in this gallery
Baroque painting, from around 1600, set out to move the viewer: dramatic light and shadow, bold diagonals and moments caught at their most intense. Caravaggio’s raw realism and stark contrasts of light and dark spread across Europe, shaping painters from Artemisia Gentileschi to Georges de La Tour, while Peter Paul Rubens filled vast canvases with energy and colour, and Diego Velázquez painted the Spanish court with breathtaking freedom.
In the newly independent Dutch Republic, a prosperous merchant public bought paintings for their homes, and artists specialised in portraits, landscapes, still lifes and everyday interiors. This Dutch Golden Age produced Rembrandt’s searching portraits and Johannes Vermeer’s and Pieter de Hooch’s quiet rooms full of light.
Artists
- Rembrandt10
- Johannes Vermeer9
- Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)7
- Caravaggio7
- Peter Paul Rubens5
- Georges de La Tour3
- Pieter de Hooch2
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo2
- Artemisia Gentileschi2
- Frans Hals2
- Jacob van Ruisdael2
- Jan van Kessel the Younger1
- Judith Leyster1
- Orazio Gentileschi1
- Clara Peeters1
- Anthony van Dyck1
- Nicolas Poussin1
- Jusepe de Ribera1
- Gerard ter Borch1
- Carel Fabritius1
- Meindert Hobbema1
- Rachel Ruysch1
- Claude Lorrain1
- Hyacinthe Rigaud1
- Annibale Carracci1
- Hendrick Avercamp1
- Guido Reni1
- Francisco de Zurbarán1
- Louis Le Nain1
- Jan Asselijn1
- Philippe de Champaigne1
