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Baroque
Baroque (pronounced /bəˈroʊk/, bə-rohk) is an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should...
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Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1571
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1610 (age 38 years)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 — 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1598
Date of death:
- 1680 (age 81 years)
Alessandro Algardi
Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Algardi was born in Bologna, where...
Date of birth:
- Jul 31, 1598
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 1654 (age 55 years)
Ambrosius Bosschaert
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18, 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
He started his career in Antwerp, but spent most of it in Middelburg (1593–1613), where he became dean of the painters'...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1573
Date of death:
- 1621 (age 47 years)
Agostino Carracci
Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.
He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1557
Date of death:
- Mar 22, 1602 (age 44 years)
Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 – November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1651...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1620
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1691 (age 71 years)
Francesco Borromini
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli (25 September 1599 - 3 August 1667) was a Swiss Italian architect who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1599
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1667 (age 67 years)
Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp (bapt. January 27, 1585, Amsterdam - buried May 15, 1634, Kampen (Overijssel)) was a Dutch painter.
Avercamp studied in Amsterdam with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625), and perhaps also with David...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1585
Date of death:
- 1634 (age 48 years)
Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (c. 1592 – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the North-Eastern border with France). He is an important figure in the development of the old master print. He made over 1...
Date of birth:
- 1592
Date of death:
- 1635 (age 43 years)
Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596, Leiden – 27 April 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known....
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1596
Date of death:
- 1656 (age 60 years)
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life....
Date of birth:
- 1632
Date of death:
- Dec 15, 1675 (age 43 years)
Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1580 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for portraiture. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in...
Date of birth:
- 1580
Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1666 (age 86 years)
Georg Daniel Schultz
(Georg) Daniel Schultz the Younger (1615–1683) was a famous painter of the Baroque era. Born probably around 1615 in Danzig (Gdańsk), he painted many local Patricians, such as the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, as well as animals.
Schultz learned the...
Date of birth:
- 1615
Date of death:
- 1683 (age 68 years)
Sisto Badalocchio
Sisto Badalocchio Rosa (1581 or 1585 - c. 1647) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School.
Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome. He worked with Annibale till 1609, then...
Date of birth:
- 1581
Date of death:
- 1647 (age 66 years)
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1594
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1665 (age 71 years)
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Hyacinthe Rigaud (18 July 1659, Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales)–29 December 1743, Paris) was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris.
He is renowned for his portrait paintings of Louis XIV, the royalty and nobility...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1659
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1743 (age 84 years)
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 - January 13, 1625) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. Nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel, of which the latter two were...
Date of birth:
- 1568
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1625 (age 57 years)
Jan Brueghel the Younger
Jan Brueghel the Younger (September 13, 1601 – September 1, 1678), was a Flemish Baroque painter, and the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder.
He was trained by his father and spent his career producing works in a similar style. Along with his brother...
Date of birth:
- Sep 13, 1601
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1678 (age 77 years)
William Dobson
William Dobson (March 4, 1610 – October 28, 1646) was a portraitist and one of the first notable English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred".
Dobson was born in London the son...
Date of birth:
- Mar 4, 1610
Date of death:
- Oct 28, 1646 (age 36 years)
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1599
Date of death:
- Aug 6, 1660 (age 61 years)
Paulus Potter
Paulus Potter (baptised on November 20, 1625 in Enkhuizen – buried on January 17, 1654 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, specialized in animals in landscapes, usually with a low point of view. Before Potter died of tuberculosis, 28-years old, he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 20, 1625
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1654 (age 28 years)
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1577
Date of death:
- May 30, 1640 (age 62 years)
Matthäus Merian
Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr.") (Basel, 22 September 1593 - Bad Schwalbach, 19 June 1650) was a notable Swiss engraver.
Born in Basel, he learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 22, 1593
Date of death:
- Jun 19, 1650 (age 56 years)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 9, 1666), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. Guercino is Italian for squinter, a nickname that was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1591
Date of death:
- Dec 9, 1666 (age 75 years)
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria (German: Ruprecht Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, Herzog von Bayern), commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 December 1619 – 29 November 1682), soldier, inventor and amateur artist in mezzotint, was...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1619
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1682 (age 62 years)
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (July 15, 1573 – June 21, 1652) is regarded as the first significant British architect of the modern period, and the first to bring Italianate Renaissance architecture to England. He also made valuable contributions to stage design....
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1573
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 1652 (age 78 years)
Willem Drost
Willem Drost (bapt. April 19, 1633, Amsterdam - buried February 25, 1659, Venice) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits.
He is a mysterious figure, closely associated with Rembrandt, with very few paintings...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1633
Date of death:
- Feb 25, 1659 (age 25 years)
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter.
Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino, and his cousin Ludovico...
Date of birth:
- Nov 3, 1560
Date of death:
- Jul 15, 1609 (age 48 years)
Bartolomé Estéban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) – April 3, 1682), was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1617
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1682 (age 64 years)
Godfrey Kneller
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (8 August, 1646 – 19 October, 1723) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I. His major works...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1646
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1723 (age 77 years)
Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens (May 19, 1593 - October 18, 1678), was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1593
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1678 (age 85 years)
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 – 22 February 1690) was a French painter and art theorist, one of the dominant artists in 17th century France.
Born in Paris, he attracted the notice of Chancellor Séguier, who placed him at the age of eleven in the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1619
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1690 (age 71 years)
Carlo Dolci
Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.
He was born in Florence, on his mother's...
Date of birth:
- May 25, 1616
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1686 (age 69 years)
Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.
Born in Naples, Giordano was the son of Antonio Giordano, an undistinguished painter. At a precocious age, Giordano was apprenticed to...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1634
Date of death:
- Jan 3, 1705 (age 70 years)
Jan Steen
Jan Havickszoon Steen (c. 1626 – buried February 3, 1679) was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age). Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade.
Steen was born in...
Date of birth:
- 1626
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1679 (age 53 years)
Frans Pourbus the younger
Frans Pourbus the younger (1569 - 1622) was a Flemish painter, son of Frans Pourbus the Elder and grandson of Pieter Pourbus. He was born in Antwerp and died in Paris. He is also referred to as "Frans II".
Pourbus worked for many of the highly...
Date of birth:
- 1569
Date of death:
- 1622 (age 53 years)
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1599
Date of death:
- Dec 9, 1641 (age 42 years)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827 – October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor and painter.
Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1827
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1875 (age 48 years)
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Amsterdam, August 19, 1621 – Amsterdam, October 22, 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.
Gerbrand was born...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1621
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1674 (age 53 years)
Govert Flinck
Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (January 25, 1615 – February 2, 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
Born at Cleves, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for drawing, was sent...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1615
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1660 (age 45 years)
Cristofano Allori
Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school.
Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1577
Date of death:
- Apr 1, 1621 (age 43 years)
Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius (bapt. February 27, 1622, Middenbeemster - October 12, 1654, Delft) was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils.
Fabritius was born in the ten-year old Beemster polder, as the son of schoolteacher. Initially he...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1622
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1654 (age 32 years)
Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, (1 November 1596 – 16 May 1669) was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque. He is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he had ample...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1596
Date of death:
- May 16, 1669 (age 72 years)
Carlo Saraceni
Carlo Saraceni (Venice 1579-Venice, 16 June 1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968.
Though he was born in Venice, his...
Date of birth:
- 1579
Date of death:
- Jun 16, 1620 (age 41 years)
Louis Le Vau
Louis Le Vau (1612 – 11 October 1670) was a French Classical architect who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was born and died in Paris.
He was responsible, with André Le Nôtre and Charles Le Brun, for the redesign of the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte...
Date of birth:
- 1612
Date of death:
- Oct 11, 1670 (age 58 years)
Willem van de Velde the Younger
Willem van de Velde the Younger (bapt. 18 December 1633 – 6 April 1707) was a Dutch marine painter.
Willem van de Velde was baptised on 18 December 1633 in Leiden, Holland, Dutch Republic.
A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1633
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1707 (age 73 years)
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈhoːx], also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe") (baptized December 20, 1629 – 1684) was a genre painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a contemporary of Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, with whom his work shared themes...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1629
Date of death:
- 1684 (age 54 years)
Guido Reni
Guido Reni (4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.
Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1575
Date of death:
- Aug 18, 1642 (age 66 years)
Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.
Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. In...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1602
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1674 (age 72 years)
Francisco Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1598
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1664 (age 65 years)
Abraham Bosse
Abraham Bosse (c. 1602-1604 – February 14, 1676) was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.
He was born to Huguenot (Calvinist) parents in Tours, France, where his father had moved from Germany. His father was a...
Date of birth:
- 1600
Date of death:
- 1676 (age 76 years)
Salvatore Rosa
Salvator Rosa (1615 - March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romantic.
He was born in...
Date of birth:
- 1615
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1673 (age 58 years)
Salomon van Ruisdael
Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden - buried Nov 3, 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the brother of Jacob van Ruisdael.
According to Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker specialized in making fancy ebony frames...
Date of birth:
- 1602
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 1670 (age 68 years)
Dirck van Baburen
Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen (c. 1595 – February 21, 1624) was a Dutch painter associated with the Utrecht caravaggisti.
Dirck van Baburen was probably born in Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family moved to Utrecht when he was still young. He was also...
Date of birth:
- 1595
Date of death:
- Feb 21, 1624 (age 29 years)
Gerard Dou
Gerard Dou, also known as Gerrit and Douw or Dow (April 7, 1613–February 9, 1675), was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly-polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1613
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 1675 (age 61 years)
Adriaen Brouwer
Adriaen Brouwer (1605, Oudenaarde - January 1638, Antwerp) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer, moved perhaps via Antwerp to...
Date of birth:
- 1605
Date of death:
- Jan 1638 (age 33 years)
Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Hendricx December 10, 1610 – buried May 2, 1685) was a Dutch genre painter.
He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the town of Ostade near Eindhoven. Although Adriaen and his brother...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1610
Date of death:
- May 2, 1685 (age 74 years)
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593–ca. 1656) was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1593
Date of death:
- 1656 (age 62 years)
Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 - 30 June 1649) was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.
His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1590
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 1649 (age 59 years)
Pierre Paul Puget
Pierre Paul Puget (October 31, 1622 – December 2, 1694) was a French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer.
He was born in Marseille.
At the age of fourteen he carved the ornaments of the galleys built in the shipyards of his native city, and at...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1622
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1694 (age 72 years)
