Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture between the early 17th and mid-18th century. Its roots lay in the traditions of ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

Robert Baldwin works on the social history of Late Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque ... Art from the Renaissance to the Present; (2) Later Renaissance Art in Italy, 1500-1575; (3) Rubens, Rembrandt, ...

An early 17th-century portrait by the Italian Baroque ... Caravaggio shaped the Italian Baroque style of the Counter-Reformation era. Caravaggio was also notorious for his violent temper.