1600s
10 postsEt in Arcadia ego
Painting · Nicolas Poussin
Poussin's Et in Arcadia ego (c. 1638) is the great meditation of Baroque classicism: shepherds in an idyllic Arcadia reading a tomb's inscription, death present even in paradise.Crosses Baroque × Pain
View of Toledo
Painting · El Greco
El Greco's View of Toledo (c. 1600) is one of the only pure landscapes of the Spanish Renaissance and a peak of Mannerism, the city seen under a storm-charged, almost visionary sky.Crosses Mannerism ×
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Painting · Johannes Vermeer
Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) is the most famous of the Dutch Golden Age tronies, a study in light, gaze, and the single luminous pearl.Crosses Baroque × Painting × 1600s. Reference.
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
Sculpture · Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (1625) is the defining Baroque sculpture, marble caught at the instant Daphne turns to laurel to escape the god.Crosses Baroque × Sculpture × Greek Mythology. Reference.
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Painting · Artemisia Gentileschi
Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620) is the most unflinching Baroque treatment of the biblical scene, and a landmark work by one of the era's few professional women painters.Crosses Baroq
Saturn Devouring His Son (Rubens)
Painting · Peter Paul Rubens
Rubens' Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) gives the Roman myth its Baroque treatment: muscular, lit, and immediate. It sits in direct lineage with Goya's later, darker version already catalogued here.Cr
The Geographer
Painting (oil on canvas) · Johannes Vermeer
Vermeer painted only about thirty-five works in his entire career. Two of them, painted around 1668 and 1669, depict male scholars: The Astronomer (now at the Louvre) and The Geographer (now at the St
Portrait of Pope Innocent X
Painting (oil on canvas) · Diego Velázquez
Innocent X did not want the portrait to make him look good. He wanted it to make him look right. Velázquez, who had arrived in Rome in 1649 for his second visit to Italy and stayed nearly two years, u
Las Meninas
Painting (oil on canvas) · Diego Velázquez
The painting is built around an unanswered question, and the question is the painting's actual subject. Velázquez stands behind a large canvas at the left edge of the picture, brush in hand, looking o
Paradise Lost
Sacred Text · John Milton
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the
