Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
(1571 - 1610)
 

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Bacchus (1593-1594) oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Calling of St. Matthew (1597-1601) oil on canvas
Rome, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Conversion of Saint Paul (c. 1601) oil on canvas
Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo

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Annibale Carracci
(1560 - 1609)
 

Annibale Carracci – The Triumph of Bacchus (1597-1601) fresco
Rome, Palazzo Farnese

Orazio Gentileschi
(1563-1639)
 

Orazio Gentileschi – The Holy Family on the Rest During the Flight into Egypt (1628) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Artemisia Gentileschi
(1593-1656)
 

Artemisia Gentileschi – Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1630) oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

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Pietro da Cortona [Pietro Berrenttini]
(1596 - 1669)
 

Pietro da Cortona [Pietro Berrettini] – Hagar's Return (1637-1642) oil on canvas
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Pietro da Cortona [Pietro Berrettini] – Triumph of the Barberini (1633-1639) fresco
Ceiling fresco in the Salone, Palazzo Barberini, Rome

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598 - 1680)
 

Gian Lorenzo Bernini – The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (1644-1647) marble
Altar of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Cornaro Chapel, Rome

Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625) marble
Galleria Borghese

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Other Italian Baroque Artists
 

Domenichino [Demenico Zampieri] – The Last Communion of St. Jerome (1614) oil on canvas
Vatican, Pinacoteca

Guido Reni – The Abduction of Helen (1631) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Baciccia [Giovanni Batista Gaulli] – Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1676-1679)
ceiling fresco in Il Gesù, Rome

Carlo Maratta – Sleeping Christ Child with Music-Making Angels (1697) oil on wood
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Sebastiano Ricci – Madonna and Child with Saints (1708) oil on canvas
Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore

El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos]
(1541 - 1614)
 

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) The Holy Family (c. 1590) oil on canvas
Toledo, Tavera Hospital

Diego Velázquez
(1591 - 1660)
 

Diego Velázquez – Las Meninas (c. 1656) oil on canvas
Madrid, Musei del Prado

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Francisco de Zurbarán
(1598 - 1664)

Francisco de Zurbarán – Saint Isabel of Portugal (1640) oil on canvas
Madrid, Prado

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Jusepe de Ribera
(1591 - 1652)

Jusepe de Ribera – Boy with a Clubfoot (1642-1652) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Other Spanish Baroque Artists

Luis Eugenio Meléndez – Still Life with Figs and Bread – oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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