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Gallery 601 - Baroque Painting in Italy

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  • Charity
    Charity

    Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna)

    Accession Number: 1974.348

  • Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
    Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

    Andrea Sacchi (Italian, Rome (?) ca. 1599–1661 Rome)

    Date: 1641
    Accession Number: 1981.317

  • Esther before Ahasuerus
    Esther before Ahasuerus

    Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, Rome 1593–1651/53 Naples)

    Accession Number: 69.281

  • Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576–1633)
    Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576–1633)

    Giuliano Finelli (Italian, 1601–1653)

    Date: 1631–32
    Accession Number: 53.201

  • Samson Captured by the Philistines
    Samson Captured by the Philistines

    Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna)

    Date: 1619
    Accession Number: 1984.459.2

  • Saint Francis
    Saint Francis

    Federico Barocci (Italian, Urbino ca. 1535–1612 Urbino)

    Date: ca. 1600–1604
    Accession Number: 2003.281

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Card No. 8, from the advertising card series "Cabinet Photos, Allen & Ginter" (H807, Type 2), issued by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights Cigarettes
"A Sport for Every Girl" - Women and Sports in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick
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The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia - Charting a New Empire
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Living in Style: Five Centuries of Interior Design from the Collection of Drawings and Prints
Living in Style - Five Centuries of Interior Design from the Collection of Drawings and Prints
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Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department
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The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi
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 Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection
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Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969
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At the end of the sixteenth century, artists such as Scipione Pulzone responded to the religious shift of the Counter-Reformation with profoundly pious works. Over the next fifty years, altarpieces developed into the lavish canvases of Guido Reni and Guercino. Cardinals and princes competed to decorate their churches and palaces with vibrantly painted, often theatrically staged pictures that treated subjects from the Bible, on the one hand, and ancient history or mythology, on the other. Altarpieces and gallery pictures shared a monumental format and grandiosity of composition. Antiquity, especially classical sculpture, was an important influence on artists such as Andrea Sacchi. In this period and after, Italy continued to assert its central position in European art.

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