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View of Toledo
El Greco 1600
Photo provided by: 'Vista de Toledo', ArteHistoria. Accedido el 8/11/2010.
This piece is beautifully unique in that it is one of two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco. The colors are allowed to shine in this painting with a brilliant difference between the sky and the hills. Landscapes are not common in spanish art but this piece is on par with other european landscapes including those of Van Gogh and Monet. -
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio. 1600
Photo provided by: Bernedetti, Sergio. Caravaggio: The master revealed. Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1993
This scene depicts one of the common themes of christian paintings where Matthew chooses to follow Christ. It was created for the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. A lovely oil on canvis using bold lines and dark colors took roughly a year to create. -
The Cyclops Polyphemus
Carracci, Annibale. 1605
Photo provided by: Palazzo Farnese. Rome, Italy
This mythological scene is depicted in a baroque fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome.The cyclops Polyphemus is hurling a rock at Acis, the lover of the sea nymph Galatea. Never one to leave out the dramatic or the physical perfection of the body Greek and Roman mythology was a perfect topic for the art of the early 1600's. -
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
Caravaggio 1610
Photo provided by: Metropolitan Museum of Art (1985). The Age of Caravaggio. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The painting depicts the beautiful and modest Saint Ursula with the king of the Huns ending her life with an arrow after she refused to marry him after he had killed eleven thousand virgins that had been captured with her. The oil on canvis painting was commisioned for a noble man after his step daughter entered the order of Saint Ursula. -
The Entry of the Animals Into Noah's Ark
Jan Brueghel the Elder 1613
Photo provided by: Web Gallery of Art: Jan Brueghel the Elder
This is an amazing Flemmish oil on panel painting. Color and line are used togehter to masterfully depict the playing, fighting, and wandering of the animals that fill the frame on thier way to the saftey of the ark. Most of the animals present had real life counterparts that lent thier forms to Brueghel for the accuracy of his painting. -
Romulus and Remus
Peter Paul Rubens 1615 Photo provided by: Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome. Public Domain
A great deal of art in the early 1600's focused on christianity or greek/roman mythology. The painting contains the detailed human forms that were ideal along with the mute tones of the background that do not detract from the focus on the children and wolf in the center even with the addition of the other figures around them. -
Porträt des Ibrâhîm 'Âdil Shâh II. von Bîgâpur
Maler, Indischer. 1615
Photograph provided by: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
The difference between the light of the image and the dark of the background are brought out by the sharp lines used and the small details given so much attention in this painting. Oil on wood being the prefered medium of the time this was a unique variant from the porcalin faces in so many other painting. -
The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens 1616 Photo provided by: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
Lines played a major part in this painting as Rubens used diagonals to show movement and focus the attention to the center where the main concepts were placed. This was once one of four hunting paintings but the others were not returned after the napoleonic wars. -
Paradise
Jan Brueghel the Younger 1620
Photo provided by: Paintings by Jan Brueghel the Younger at the BBC Your Paintings site
Different wood provided beautiful backgrounds for artists and Brueghel turned and oak background into one of the most lusious paintings of his time. With a specialty in landscapes Brueghel gave the background of Paradise perfect detail and lal the peacful life that could be added. -
Crucifixion
Van Dyck, Anthony. 1622.
Photo provided by: San Zaccaria. Venice, Italy
One of many representations of Christ's crucifixion that being together the hyper realism of the time with an almost celestial air that lets you know it is more than just a landscape or portrait. Earthy times that still manage to use color differences to peak the viewers interest. -
Basket of Fruits
Balthasar van der Ast 1622
Photo provided by: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ast/basket-fruits-1622.jpg
Realism and the talent to create near perfect representations of life were highly sought after during the early 1600's and the baskets of fruit took on a briliant level of detail and in turn beauty. Colors meaning less than the lines that surrounded them really brought deapth to pantings such as this. -
A Lady and Her Two Children
Unknown Artist. 1624
Photo provided by: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A very interesting oil and panel painting dated in gold and holding little other information about the subjects. The painting has amazing detail and is a lovely example of how the wealthy appeared in thier portraits. This almost eary porcilin doll appearance was common at the time. -
David
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. 1624
Photo provided by: Galleria Borghese. Rome, Italy
David is a marble statue completed in seven months for the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese. David is the David that brought down Goliath but unlike previous statues of the same form this wished to show movement in the body and succeeded beautifly. -
Head of Saint John the Baptist
An anonymous Spanish painter. Circa 1600-1650.
Photo provided by: Cleveland Museum of Art
Like many pieces from the time realigion is a key element of this painting which seems realistic while surreal at the same time. This is a terrifying image with the realistic appeal of the trays of fruit ans the reminder that religion is not always beautiful. -
Peasants Brawling over Cards
Brouwer, Adriaen. 1630
Photo provided by: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. Dresden, Germany.
One of several pieces that brought peasant life to the forfront of Dutch art this piece is oil on wood. It is also meant to show the terrible nature of alcoholism that was rampent in the society filled with breweries and those that would partake. -
The Muses Urania and Calliope
Simon Vouet 1634
Photo provided by: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
This is a beautiful oil on white oak panel painting that now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. One of several paintings representing the muses this piece shows the muses of epic poetry and astronomy. -
Campo Vaccino
Lorrain, Claude. 1636
Photo provided by: Musée du Louvre. Paris, France
This painting os one of the many realistic lans scapes to come out of the era. It shows the Roman forum and the clutter covering the monuments that deserved more. -
Hirten in Arkadien (Et in Arcadia ego)
Poussin, Nicolas. 1637-1638.
Photograph provided by: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
This paiting combined many of the most dramatic aspects of art in this time frame. The tomb representing death, the shepherds as the perfect representations of thier people, and the shadow being traced as the first piece of art. -
Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
Guido Reni 1640
Photo provided by: HgH0SCjz6vSFVQ at Google Cultural Institute
An oil on canvis painting hanging in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Reni painted this during the Catholic Counter-Reformation when religious works were most preferable. The fruit is a representation of Edan and the fruitfulness of redemption. -
Virgin and Child
Jusepe de Ribera, 1646
Photo provided by: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
A beautiful oil on canvis painting focusing on the key religious aspects of the age using the brilliant blue with the simple tones and realistic fetures so common of the time. -
Immaculate Conception (La Colosal)
Murillo, Bartolome Estebancir.ca 1650
Photo provided by: "Bartolomé Esteban MURILLO". Meadows Museum. Retrieved
Like a great deal of the art from this time period we see a realisitc portrait focused on religious tones and brilliant color.
