Baroque

The BaroqueEurope at the Dawn of the Age of Reason

baroque |bəˈrōk|

Adjective relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of

the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by

ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of

Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy. Major composers include Vivaldi,

Bach, and Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists.

• highly ornate and extravagant in style : the candles were positively baroque. noun

the baroque style.

• the baroque period. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French (originally designating a

pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco, Spanish barrueco, or

Italian barocco; of unknown ultimate origin.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez Spanish1599-1660

Pope Innocent X1650oil on canvas19.3” x 16.6”49.2 x 41.3 cm.


Philip IV of Spain1644oil on canvas51” x 39”129.9 x 99.4 cm.


Infante Baltasar Carlos on Horseback1634-35oil on canvas82” x 68”209 x 173 cm.


The Feast of Bacchus (Los Borrachos)1629oil on canvas65” x 89”165 x 227 cm.


Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares1635-36oil on canvas50” x 41”127 x 104 cm.


The Surrender of Breda1634-35oil on canvas121” x 144”307 x 367 cm.


The Family of Philip IV (Las Meninas)1656oil on canvas125” x 108”318 x 276 cm.


Philip IV of Spain in Brown and SilverCirca 1632oil on canvas77” x 43”195 x 110 cm.


Infante Baltasar Carlos as a HunterCirca 1636oil on canvas60” x 35”154 x 90 cm.


Christ on the CrossCirca 1632-32oil on canvas97” x 66”248 x 169 cm.


Juan de Pareja, Velázquez’s African Servant1650oil on canvas32” x 24”82 x 62 cm.


The Fable of Arachne (The Spinners)1656-58oil on canvas86” x 113”220 x 289 cm.


Archbishop Fernando de ValdésCirca 1640-45oil on canvas25” x 23”63 x 59 cm.


Francisco Lezcano1638-40oil on canvas42” x 32”107 x 83 cm.


The Toilet of Venus1647-51oil on canvas48” x 69”122 x 177 cm.

Over Three Hundred Years after VelázquezThe Spanish Royal Family

Su Majestad el Rey Don Juan Carlos, con el uniforme de Capitán General de los Ejércitos

Three Hundred Forty-Eight Years after VelázquezThe Spanish Royal Family

Su Alteza Real el Príncipe de Asturias, Don Felipe de Borbón y Grecia

Three Hundred Forty-Eight Years after VelázquezThe Spanish Royal Family

Rembrandt Harmenz van RijnDutch1606-1669

Self Portrait as a Young Man

oil on panel25” x 21”62 x 52 cm.


Self Portrait1640oil on canvas39” x 31”99 x 80 cm.


Self Portrait at an Easel1660oil on canvas44” x 34”110 x 86 cm.


Self Portrait1669oil on canvas33” x 27”83 x 69 cm.


Hendrickje Stoffels in Bed1640soil on canvas laid on panel32” x 36”81 x 67 cm.


Head of a Laughing Man1628oil on copper6” x 5”15 x 12 cm.


The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicholas Tulp1632oil on canvas65” x 86”162 x 216 cm.


The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. John Deyman1656oil on canvas40” x 52”100 x 132 cm.


The Night Watch1642oil on canvas146” x 175”387 x 502 cm.


The Syndics of the Clothworkers Guild1662oil on canvas74” x 109”185 x 274 cm.


Bathsheba at her Toilet1654oil on canvas56” x 56”142 x 142 cm.


Woman Bathing1654oil on panel24” x 18”61 x 46 cm.


The Stone Bridge1638oil on canvas11” x 16”28 x 42 cm.


The Slaughter House

oil on panel28” x 20”72 x 52 cm.

Nature and nature’s law lay hid in Night.

God said, Let Newton be! And all was light.

Alexander Pope

Jan VermeerDutch1632-1675

View of Delft1660-61oil on canvas38” x 41”98 x 117 cm.


The Milkmaid1658-60oil on canvas18” x 16”45 x 41 cm.


Young Woman with a Water Jug1664-65oil on canvas42” x 32”107 x 83 cm.


The Girl With a Pearl Earring1665oil on canvas18” x 15”46 x 40 cm.


The Allegory of Painting1666-67oil on canvas47” x 39”120 x 100 cm.


The Girl with a Red Hat1666-67oil on wood panel9” x 7”23 x 18 cm.

1564 Birth of Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare, death of Michelangelo

1605 Cervantes publishes Don Quixote, Shakespeare writes Macbeth

1607 Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

1610 Galileo Galilei publishes Siderius Nuncio (The Starry Messenger) and challenges the Ptolemaic geocentric view

1621 Weekly Newes, first English newspaper

1687 Isaac Newton publishes the Principia

1704 Isaac Newton publishes Opticks

1740 Masanobu, linear perspective in Ukiyo-e prints

1765 Harunobu, multicolor Ukiyo-e prints

1769 James Watt Patents the steam engine

1776 American Revolution

1789 French Revolution

1789 U.S. Constitution

1793 Execution of Louis XVI by France’s revolutionary government, end of the Ancien Régime

1796 Alois Senefelder invents lithography

1799 Napoleon becomes ruler of France

1800 Lord Stanhope’s cast iron press

1830-32 Hokusai, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

1804 Napoleon crowned emperor of France

1822 Joseph Niepce, first photolithographic print

1826 Joseph Niepce, the first photograph from nature

1835 William Fox Talbot, first photographic negative

1839 Daguerre announces his photographic process

William Fox Talbot announces his photographic process

1844 Samuel Morse invents the telegraph

1844 William Fox Talbot publishes The Pencil of Nature

1848 Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto

1853 Commodore Perry opens Japan

1859 Charles Darwin publishes the Origin of the Species

1861-65 American Civil War

1870 Franco-Prussian War, first fully industrialized European war makes extensive use of railroads, breech loading rifles, telegraphy, balloon reconnaissance and steel artillery

Tea Serving AutomatonJapanese1700s

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