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Italian Baroque

• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • St. Peter's Basilica exterior (w/ Maderno)
    • Piazza of St. Peter's Basilica
    • Throne of St. Peter
    • Baldacchino
  • Constantine
  • Ecstasy of St. Theresa [close-up]
  • David
  • Daphne & Apollo [detail]
  • Abduction of Proserpina [detail]

• Francesco Borromini
  • San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane [Floorplan | More views]
  • S. Ivo della Sapienza
  • Sant'Agnese [other views at bottom of page]
  
  
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
  • The Lute Player [detail of music and lute]
  • The Cardsharps
  • The Calling of St. Matthew
  • The Martyrdom of St. Matthew
  • The Crucifixion of St. Peter
  • The Conversion of St. Paul
  • The Supper at Emmaus
  • The Entombment of Christ
  • The Raising of Lazarus
  • David with the Head of Goliath
  
  
• Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Judith Slaying Holofernes

Spanish Baroque

• Diego Velázquez
  • Las Meninas (Maids of Honor)
  • King Philip IV as a Huntsman
  • Prince Baltasar Carlos as a Hunter
  • Prince Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf
  • The Duke of Olivares on Horseback
  • The Waterseller of Seville
  • Juan de Pareja
  • The Surrender of Breda

French Baroque

• Georges de la Tour
  • The Lamentation over Saint Sebastian
  
  
• Nicolas Poussin
  • Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
  • Et In Arcadia Ego
  • Rape of the Sabine Women
  • The Funeral of Phocion
  
  
• Architecture
  • Le Louvre
    • additional views
    • Additional resources
  • Palace of Versailles
  • Additional views [Bryn Mawr]
  • Interior views

Dutch Baroque

• Frans Hals
  • Banquet of the Officers of St. George Guard Co.
  • Yonker Ramp and his Sweetheart
  • The Laughing Cavalier
  • The Jolly Toper [The Merry Drinker]
  • Malle Babbe
  • Women Regents of the Old Men's Home at Harlem
  
  
• Rembrandt van Rijn
  • Woman with a Pink
  • Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
  • The Blinding of Samson
  • The Anatomy Lesson
  • The Night Watch
  • Man with Gilt Helmet
  • Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
  • The Three Crosses
  • Supper at Emmaus
  • The Descent from the Cross
  • Self-Portraits
  • Lesser Works
    • The Raising of Lazarus
    • The Mill
    • Bathsheba
    • The Slaughtered Ox
    • Raphael and the Family of Tobias
    • Burgher and his Wife
  • The Polish Rider
  • Jeremiah Lamenting the Devastation of Jerusalem
  
  
• Jan Vermeer
  • Officer and Laughing Girl
  • The Milkmaid
  • Girl Interrupted At Her Music [close-up]
  • Woman in Blue Reading a Letter [close-up]
  • Young Woman with a Water Jug
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring [close-up]
    • a.k.a. "Head of a Young Girl"
  • The Allegory of Painting
    • a.k.a. "Allegory of Fame"; "An Artist in his Studio"
  • Mistress and Maid
  • The Astronomer [close-up of globe]
  • The Geographer [close-up]
  • The Love Letter
  • The Lacemaker
  • Street in Delft
  • View of Delft
  • Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
  • Lady Reading a Letter at an Open Window [close-up]
  
  
• Pieter de Hooch
  • The Linen Cupboard
  • Portrait of a Family Making Music [The Music Party]
  • A Dutch Courtyard
  
  
• Jan Steen
  • The World Turned Upside Down [a.k.a. "The Droll Farm"]
  • The Eve of St. Nicholas
  • Twelfth Night
    • a.k.a. "The Way You Hear It Is The Way You Sing It"; "The Artist's Family"
  
  
• Judith Leyster
  • The Concert
  • Self-Portrait
  
  
• Jacob van Ruisdael
  • Distant View of Haarlem
  • Wheat Fields
  • The Jewish Cemetery

Flemish Baroque

• Peter Paul Rubens
  • The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
  • The Annunciation
  • Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt
  • The Defeat of Sennacherib [This is the best I could find!]
  • Self-portrait with wife Helena Fourment and son in garden
  • Rape of the Sabine Women
  • Prometheus Bound (a.k.a. "Chained Prometheus")
  • Commissions for Marie de Medici
    • The Journey of Marie de Medici
    • The Education of Marie de Medici
    • Marie Arrives at Marseilles

English Baroque

• Anthony van Dyck
  • Charles I, Hunting
  • Portrait of Marchesa Elena Grimaldi
  • Charles I on Horseback
• Architecture
  • Christopher Wren: St. Paul's Cathedral
  • Inigo Jones: Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace
  • John Vanbrugh: Blenheim Palace

Baroque Music

• The Classical Music Archives include MIDI renditions of the works of:
  • George Frederic Handel
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Antonio Vivaldi

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