#italian baroque
The Lamentation
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian; 1581–1641)
1603
Oil on copper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The Burial of Christ
Annibale Carracci (Italian; 1560–1609)
1595
Oil on copper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian; 1639–1709)
1676–79
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Working study for one of the most important illusionistic Baroque frescoes, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus, on the ceiling of Il Gesù in Rome
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Selene and Endymion
Ubaldo Gandolfi (Italian; 1728–1781)
ca. 1770
Oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
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Classical Landscape with Five Fishermen
Domenichino (Italian; 1581–1641)
17th century
Watercolor and opaque watercolor on paper
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
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Fishing Boats in a Storm
Marco Ricci (Italian; 1676–1730)
ca. 1715
Gouache on tanned skin
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
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Bust of a Youth(Saint John the Baptist?), Francesco Mochi (Italian, 1580-1654), 1625-405
Marble, on variegated black marble socle
40.5 × 33 × 29 cm
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
“Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting” (1639)
Oil on canvas
Baroque
On display in the Cumberland Gallery in the Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, EnglandGentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, and one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence, one of the oldest and one of the most prestigious art schools in the world.
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Detail from “Saint Jerome Meditating”, 1605, Caravaggio.
Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, Luca Giordano, ca. 1688
