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Artchive: Baroque Art
Created by Mark Harden, this website offers a brief introduction to art of the baroque period, and is supported by a select bibliography and links to relevant artists.
Artcyclopedia: Baroque
Artcyclopedia offers a list of many baroque artists and includes links to related sites.
ArtLex: Baroque
An overview of baroque art is provided by the ArtLex dictionary, with links to many examples.
Loggia: Italian Baroque Art and Loggia: Spanish Baroque Art
Italian and Spanish baroque art are explored in text and image in these sections of Loggia, a site dedicated to the study of the arts and humanities.
Thais: Italian Baroque Sculpture
Key pieces of sculpture from the baroque period are highlighted on this page from Thais, the website for Italian culture. Though text is limited, what is present is in Italian.
Web Gallery of Art: Spanish Baroque Painting in the Golden Age
Take a virtual tour of art in Spain during the golden age. Emil Kren and Daniel Marx's Web Gallery of Art focuses on the Spanish baroque in this enjoyable tour.
WebMuseum: Baroque
Nicolas Pioch's WebMuseum, Paris, offers this brief overview of the baroque period, with links to images.
Florentine Baroque Art Bibliography
Miles Chappell of the College of William and Mary has compiled this thorough bibliography of works about the Florentine art of the baroque period.
Monographic
The
following artist directories feature the leading academic websites, reviewed
and cataloged by experts from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities:
• Michelangelo
Merisi da Caravaggio
• Artemisia
Gentileschi
• Diego Velázquez
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Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750
Illustrated in color for the first time, Rudolf Wittkower's classic survey of Italian baroque art is presented here with a new critical introduction and an extensive bibliography.
The Genius of Rome 1592–1623
Explore the birth of baroque art in this lavishly illustrated catalog companion to an exhibition from the Royal Academy in London. An invaluable resource for students of the baroque, this book includes essays by prominent scholars, artist biographies, and a bibliography for further reading.
Reflections on Baroque
With worthy illustrations, this nicely written overview focuses on key themes and central features of baroque art and culture.
Thematic
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art
Annette Dixon finds that female power was a prominent theme in the Renaissance and baroque eras. In this beautifully illustrated collection of essays, prominent scholars explore its many manifestations in art, literature, mythology, and history.
Monographic
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Written by a leading authority on the art and life of Caravaggio, this beautiful volume offers a contextual examination of his work. A critical catalog on CD-ROM accompanies the book.
Caravaggio's Secrets
This engaging, intelligent, and beautifully designed book places Caravaggio's art in a psychoanalytic context, exploring the tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat in his images.
Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image
Caravaggio's recently discovered painting, The Taking of Christ, provided the occasion for this 1999 exhibition at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art. Focusing on style, function, and subject matter, scholarly essays approach Italian baroque religious art from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
This catalog from the 2002 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the St. Louis Art Museum juxtaposes the most significant works by father and daughter.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Mary D. Garrard takes an interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating artist in the first full-length study of her life and work.
Diego Velázquez
The Cambridge Companion to Velázquez
Explore Velázquez in an interdisciplinary context with this collection of engaging essays by leading scholars.
Velázquez: The Technique of Genius
In this informative volume, 30 of Velázquez's works are examined in detail by art historian Jonathan Brown and conservation specialist Carmen Garrido.
Velázquez's Las Meninas
Cambridge University's Masterpieces of Western Painting series offers a panoply of scholarly essays on a single work of art.
Velázquez, Los Borrachos, and Painting at the Court of Philip IV
Focusing on a single painting, Steven N. Orso examines the social, political, and cultural contexts in which Velázquez produced some of his most compelling work.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Focus
Websites
Artchive: Bernini
Images, a biography, and a bibliography are presented here by Mark Harden's Artchive.
Thais: Bernini
Many high-quality images can be found on this page from Thais, the website for Italian art.
Web Gallery of Art: Bernini
This page from the Web Gallery of Art, created by
Emil Kren and Daniel Marx, focuses on the work of Bernini. Links to paintings,
as well as a biography of the Italian artist, are included.
Artcyclopedia: Bernini
This commercial fine-art search engine provides listings of the artist's works in museums and image galleries, and includes links to websites and articles.
Books
Bernini: Genius of the Baroque
Charles Avery draws on recent scholarship to present this accessible reevaluation of Bernini's career as a sculptor and architect.
Bernini and the Art of Architecture
This spectacular, lavishly illustrated text explores Bernini's major architectural projects along with the political, cultural, and personal forces out of which they were forged.
Bernini (Penguin Art and Architecture)
For those who would prefer a simple and concise introduction to Bernini's achievements, Howard Hibbard offers this readable study.
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