Baroque Art

  • Essays (82)
  • Works of Art (373)
  • Chronology (10)
  • The Burial of Christ
    1998.188
  • Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick
    49.7.26
  • Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family
    2014.250
  • Table decoration in the form of a peacock
    2010.110.64a,b
  • Coffeepot
    2010.110.55
  • Hexagonal dish
    2010.110.45
  • Footed beaker with cover
    2010.110.38a,b
  • Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)
    1990.53.2
  • Saint John the Evangelist
    1971.92.2
  • Ferdinando de' Medici (1663–1713), Grand Prince of Tuscany
    1993.332.2
  • Clothing the Naked
    1984.459.1
  • The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin
    1992.133
  • Man Holding a Jug
    2001.613
  • An Extensive Wooded Landscape: Philips Koninck
    1980.4
  • Drawing the Eel
    71.75
  • Landscape with a Cottage
    95.7
  • Bass Viola da Gamba
    1989.44
  • Bass Viola da Gamba
    1988.365
  • Merry Company on a Terrace
    58.89
  • Departure of the Amazons
    1976.100.6
  • Isaac Blessing Jacob
    25.110.16
  • Modelli Artificiosi (...) Parte seconda (Plate 18: Portrait of Adam van Vianen)
    27.23.48
  • Veelderhande Niewe Compartimente (Titlepage in Dutch)
    32.123.32_1
  • Portrait of Godert Dircksz. Kerckrinck
    2013.560
  • Modelli Artificiosi di Vasi diversi d'argento et altre Opere capriciozi (...) Parte prima (Plate 13)
    27.23.43
  • Modelli Artificiosi (...) Parte seconda (Plate 27
    27.23.57
  • Festivitates Aurifabris (...) / Verscheide Snakeryen dienstich voor Goutsmits, Beelthouwers, Steenhouwers, en alle die de const beminnen (Plate 4)
    63.601.10_4
  • Verscheyde Constige Vindigen om in Gout, Silver, Hout en Steen te wercken (Plate 9)
    56.500.10_10
  • Verscheyde Constige Vindigen om in Gout, Silver, Hout en Steen te wercken (Plate 2)
    56.500.10_2
  • Veelderhande Niewe Compartimente (Titlepage in Latin),
    32.123.32_2
  • Perseus and the Origin of Coral
    1975.1.661
  • Pilgrim Flask
    1975.1.1620
  • The Ford
    28.117
  • A Roman Landscape with Figures
    1997.157
  • The Cowherd
    37.3.14
  • Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral
    64.253
  • Festivitates Aurifabris (...) / Verscheide Snakeryen dienstich voor Goutsmits, Beelthouwers, Steenhouwers, en alle die de const beminnen (Plate 7)
    63.601.10_7
  • Modelli Artificiosi di Vasi diversi d'argento et altre Opere capriciozi (...) Parte prima (Plate 8)
    27.23.38
  • Auricular Cartouche with the Painter Hans von Aachen, the Goldsmith Paulus van Vianen, and the Sculptor Adriaen de Vries
    69.554.6
  • Design for a Silver Vessel with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
    2000.581
  • Pendant in the Form of Neptune and a Sea Monster
    1982.60.378
  • Square Blackwork Design in Silhouette Style with Schweifwerk and Grotesque Figures
    32.123.11
  • Lunar-shaped Ring Bezel and Grotesque Figures
    42.40.1(1)
  • Small Motifs of Insects and Plants
    42.86.4(8)
  • Portrait of a Man, Possibly Nicolaes Pietersz Duyst van Voorhout (born about 1600, died 1650)
    49.7.33
  • Portrait of a Man
    91.26.9
  • Paulus Verschuur (1606–1667)
    26.101.11
  • Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff
    49.7.34
  • Anna van der Aar (1576/77–after 1626)
    29.100.9
  • Petrus Scriverius (1576–1660)
    29.100.8
  • Portrait of a Woman
    91.26.10
  • The Smoker
    89.15.34
  • Natural Trumpet
    89.4.2375
  • Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness
    2009.252
  • Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)
    2009.145
  • Head of a Bishop
    2010.117
  • Tenor recorder
    2010.205
  • Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755)
    2002.439
  • A Musical Party
    91.26.11
  • Musical clock with spinet and organ
    2002.323a-f
  • Positive organ
    1978.6
  • Violin
    1990.7
  • Banister-back chair
    52.195.8
  • High chest of drawers
    52.195.2a,b
  • Lute
    2008.3
  • Violin
    1992.333
  • Guitar
    53.56.3
  • Violoncello Head
    1998.458
  • Division Viol
    89.4.956
  • The Musician
    73.2
  • A Musician and His Daughter
    64.65.4
  • Side chair
    62.171.21
  • High chest of drawers
    18.110.6
  • Portrait of a Man
    49.7.42
  • A Woman Seated at a Window
    1982.60.32
  • A Kitchen
    89.15.7
  • Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
    2001.403
  • Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
    1976.23.2
  • Château de Versailles seen from the forecourt, from Chalcographie du Louvre, Vol. 22
    30.22-22_64
  • L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts
    62.598.300
  • Louis XIV in Allegorical Armor
    25.142.61
  • Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas
    32.100.158
  • Bacchante
    1973.263
  • Classical Landscape with Gypsies
    32.53.2
  • Viola d'amore
    2009.41
  • Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector
    17.190.1522
  • The Great Ruby Watch
    17.190.1520
  • Watch
    17.190.1468ab
  • Watch in the form of a Lesser George
    17.190.1475
  • Clock watch
    17.190.1549
  • Clock-watch with alarm and calendar
    17.190.1607
  • Watch
    17.190.1525
  • Traveling clock watch with alarm
    17.190.1512
  • Pair-case watch
    17.190.1489ab
  • Watch
    17.190.1557
  • Viola d'Amore
    2008.1
  • The Luteplayer
    2008.459
  • A Woodland Road with Travelers
    1974.293
  • Man in Oriental Costume (
    20.155.2
  • A Sermon in a Village Church
    2000.483
  • Standing cup
    10.212.2a,b
  • Neptune
    24.80.91
  • Hercules and Achelous
    1982.60.129
  • Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
    1997.91
  • Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
    1971.68
  • Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush
    1976.155.2
  • Charity
    1974.348
  • The Immaculate Conception
    59.32
  • Madonna and Child with Saints
    2007.330
  • View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer
    71.62
  • Sports on a Frozen River
    32.100.11
  • Voltaire (Marie François Arouet, 1694–1778)
    08.89.1ab
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
    08.89.2ab
  • Cittern
    1985.124
  • Viola da Gamba
    1982.324
  • The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist
    1991.305
  • The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio
    1997.117.4
  • The Lamentation
    2008.72
  • The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco)
    1998.211
  • The Octagonal Room in the Small Baths at the Villa of Hadrian (Tivoli).
    1994.20
  • Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso)
    2002.39a,b
  • Mirror
    1989.20
  • Bust
    2005.243
  • The Young Virgin
    27.137
  • Vase or clock ornament
    07.225.510.316
  • Female bust
    07.225.510.118
  • An Evening School
    40.64
  • Peasants Dancing
    71.123
  • The Lovesick Maiden
    46.13.2
  • Saint John the Baptist Preaching
    2005.477
  • The Mass of Saint Basil
    2007.166
  • Salvator Mundi
    2007.91
  • Casket
    2006.452a-c
  • The Visit
    29.100.7
  • Paying the Hostess
    58.144
  • The Love Letter
    1980.203.5
  • The Lacemaker
    32.100.5
  • Sentimental Conversation
    32.100.19
  • Curiosity
    49.7.38
  • The Baker's Cart
    27.59
  • The Smokers
    32.100.21
  • A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid
    17.190.10
  • A Cat Stealing Fish
    71.17
  • Pomegranates and Other Fruit in a Landscape
    71.118
  • The Meeting
    36.16
  • Study Sheet with Three Women and a Boy
    2005.330.16
  • Turkish Lancer and Onlookers Approaching a Town
    37.165.67
  • Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Dominic and Angels
    1979.209
  • The Dissolute Household
    1982.60.31
  • Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware
    2005.331.4
  • Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View.
    2005.330.7
  • The Gathering of Manna
    2004.165
  • The Vision of Saint John
    56.48
  • Ewer and basin (lavabo set)
    2005.62.1,.2a,b
  • Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772)
    17.120.210
  • Fontana di Mercurio nel Giardino del Gran Duca di Toscana
    1991.1073.145_3.9
  • Veduta del Palazzo dal Piano del Giardino con le sue Fontane
    1991.1073.145_4.3
  • Fontana di Belvedere á Frascati
    1991.1073.145_2.5
  • Stanza de Venti nel Teatro di Belvedere di Frascati
    1991.1073.145_2.7
  • Altra Vedvta in Prospettiva del Teatro et Giardino Contigvo di Mondragone in Frascati
    1991.1073.145_2.18
  • View of the Villa Borghese
    61.532.26_15
  • View of the Villa Medici
    61.532.26_7
  • Guitar
    1990.103
  • Guitar
    1989.147
  • Guitar
    1984.225
  • Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
    29.100.5
  • View of La Crescenza
    1978.205
  • Side drum
    14.25.1618
  • Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter
    64.65.5
  • A satyr reclincing near a large vase set in a landscape
    17.50.17-464
  • Landscape with Wine Harvest
    2003.101
  • The Garden of Venus who reclines in the centre before a term of Pan and surrounded by cupids
    26.70.3_44
  • Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right
    22.73.3_152
  • The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
    26.70.3_43
  • The Dream of Aeneas
    17.50.17.85
  • Bacchanal
    1998.225
  • Fall of the Giants
    24.63.1829
  • The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)
    1972.118.224
  • The Entombment
    61.123.1
  • Reclining Female Nude
    29.107.28
  • Christ Presented to the People
    41.1.34
  • Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
    41.1.31
  • Clump of Trees with a Vista
    20.46.4
  • The Artist's Mother: Head and Bust, Three-Quarters Right
    18.72
  • Christ Presented to the People
    41.1.36
  • Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
    41.1.33
  • Sheet with Two Studies: A Tree and the Upper Part of a Head of Rembrandt Wearing a Velvet Cap
    1970.705
  • The Good Samaritan
    41.1.53
  • The Entombment
    20.46.17
  • The Entombment
    23.51.7
  • Jan Lutma
    20.46.18
  • Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left
    26.72.156
  • Abraham and Isaac
    29.107.26
  • Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Herfordshire
    32.152
  • Bass Viol
    1976.8.37
  • Sphaera Mundi
    17.37.36
  • The Triumph of Henry IV
    42.187
  • Still Life with a Nautilus, Panther Shell, and Chip-Wood Box
    2002.68
  • Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna
    65.181.12
  • The Prophets David and Daniel
    1995.401
  • Christ and the Pharisees; verso; Christ and a Pharisee
    1980.515
  • Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
    51.501.7125
  • Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
    61.68
  • The Presentation in the Temple
    52.214.3
  • The Skeletons: From the Grotteschi
    37.45.3.38
  • View of the side facade of the Palazzo Pamphili and its garden (Secondo prospetto per fianco del palazzo con diversa veduta del giardino del Bel respiro...Pamphilio)
    61.532.26.20
  • Veue du chasteau de Versailles (View of Versailles, garden facade)
    20.41.126
  • Le Bassin d'Apollon [The Fountain of Apollo, Versailles]
    52.519.84.88
  • Monstrance
    32.100.231a,b
  • Harpsichord
    89.4.1220
  • The Triumph of Marius
    65.183.1
  • The Coronation of the Virgin
    1984.433.336
  • Standing Savoyarde with a Marmot Box
    1978.12.1
  • Harpsichord
    89.4.2929
  • The Flight into Egypt
    61.50
  • The Annunciation
    1973.311.2
  • Pilate Washing His Hands
    1978.402
  • Self-Portrait
    21.105
  • Bandits on a Rocky Coast
    34.137
  • The Dream of Aeneas
    65.118
  • The Birth of the Virgin
    07.66
  • Judith with the Head of Holofernes
    59.40
  • Saint Margaret of Cortona
    68.182
  • Pirna: The Obertor from the South
    1991.306
  • Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken
    37.165.2
  • The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
    71.121
  • The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
    23.128
  • Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies (?) (verso)
    1973.265
  • The poet, standing half-length, leaning on a stone, crowned with laurel
    30.54.69
  • St. Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment
    53.512.5
  • Saint William of Maleval, hands tied with rope fastened to a tree
    17.50.17-90
  • View along the Via del Corso of the Palazzo dell'Accademia, established by Louis XIV, King of France for French students of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture..., from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), part I
    41.71.1.16_29
  • Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God
    63.92.1
  • Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Troy
    47.100.1023
  • Wilton album, folio 41: The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)
    27.78.1.150
  • Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
    1990.53.1
  • Saint Agnes
    1978.202
  • Diana and her Nymphs
    20.44.3
  • Holy-water stoup with relief of Saint Mary of Egypt
    1995.110
  • Pope Innocent X (Giovanni Battista Pamphili, reigned 1644–55)
    08.49
  • The Coronation of the Virgin
    1971.155
  • The Baptism of Christ
    1981.186
  • The Capture of Carthage
    65.183.2
  • Allegory of the Planets and Continents
    1977.1.3
  • Vaprio d'Adda
    39.142
  • Gustavus Hamilton (1710-1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume
    2002.22
  • Fantastic Landscape
    53.225.3
  • The Ridotto Pubblico at Palazzo Dandolo
    1997.117.5
  • The Visit
    14.32.2
  • The Letter
    14.32.1
  • The Denial of Saint Peter
    1997.167
  • Two Children Teasing a Cat
    1994.142
  • A Domestic Scene
    1972.133.2
  • Conversion of Saint Paul
    2002.33
  • Triton Sounding a Conch Shell
    1970.15
  • Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso)
    1994.143
  • Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
    1983.526
  • Satyr Family (Pan and his Family), from the Scherzi
    1976.537_19
  • The Garden of Love (left portion)
    58.96.1,.2
  • The Garden of Love (left block)
    30.53.17a,b
  • Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume
    1999.222
  • The Virgin Adored by Saints (recto); Study of the Torso Belvedere (verso)
    2002.12a,b
  • Landscape with a Tree and a Farm Building
    2003.27
  • Study for a Portrait of a Lady
    1972.118.279
  • Study for an Equestrian Portrait, Possibly that of Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg; verso: Various Studies of Statues and Figures, Including the Venus Pudica and Scipio and his Lictor
    40.91.16
  • Man with a Magnifying Glass
    14.40.621
  • Woman with a Pink
    14.40.622
  • Wolf and Fox Hunt
    10.73
  • The Feast of Achelous
    45.141
  • Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
    1981.238
  • Study of Two Heads
    67.187.99
  • Portrait of a Woman, Probably Susanna Lunden (Susanna Fourment, 1599–1628)
    1976.218
  • The Glorification of the Eucharist
    37.160.12
  • The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
    02.24
  • Venus and Adonis
    37.162
  • Self-Portrait
    49.7.25
  • Study Head of a Young Woman
    57.37
  • Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-Stricken of Palermo
    71.41
  • Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
    60.71.5
  • James Stuart (1612-1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
    89.15.16
  • Woman with a Lute
    25.110.24
  • Study of a Young Woman
    1979.396.1
  • Allegory of the Catholic Faith
    32.100.18
  • Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
    49.107
  • Gamepiece with a Dead Heron (
    50.55
  • A Vase of Flowers
    71.6
  • Still Life
    21.152.1
  • A Basket of Flowers
    67.187.58
  • A Partridge and Small Game Birds
    71.45
  • A Bouquet of Flowers in a Crystal Vase
    81.1.652
  • Vanitas Still Life
    1974.1
  • A Vase with Flowers
    71.5
  • Still Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wan-li Bowl
    53.111
  • Peacocks
    27.250.1
  • Taperstick
    1970.266.3
  • The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
    55.119
  • Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
    71.56
  • Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
    24.45.2
  • The Abduction of the Sabine Women
    46.160
  • The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
    1997.117.6
  • Herman Doomer (born about 1595, died 1650)
    29.100.1
  • Self-Portrait
    14.40.618
  • Portrait of a Man
    64.126
  • Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan
    43.125
  • Flora
    26.101.10
  • Hendrickje Stoffels (1626–1663)
    26.101.9
  • The Standard Bearer (Floris Soop, 1604-1657)
    49.7.35
  • A View of the Vestibule of Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome
    67.797.6
  • Don Gaspar de Guzman (1587-1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
    52.125
  • Maria Teresa (1638-1683), Infanta of Spain
    49.7.43
  • Mary Capel (1630-1715), Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth (1633-1678), Countess of Carnarvon
    39.65.3
  • Veduta interna dell'Atrio del Portico di Ottavia (Internal View of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia), in: 'Vedute di Roma' (Views of Rome)
    64.521.2
  • Chasuble
    1984.462.1
  • Border
    33.90.35
  • Grand Piano
    89.4.1219
  • Esther before Ahasuerus
    69.281
  • Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614-1691) Crowned by Apollo
    1981.317
  • The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
    34.73
  • The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)
    1982.60.39
  • Death carrying a child, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)
    59.570.379.3
  • Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
    1997.156
  • View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)
    55.567.6
  • Cosimo III de' Medici (1642–1723), Grand Duke of Tuscany
    1993.332.1
  • The Rape of Proserpina
    1997.377
  • Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
    1976.92
  • The Mater Dolorosa
    1971.92.1
  • Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662), Later Queen of Bohemia
    51.194.1
  • The Fortune Teller
    60.30
  • Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
    24.45.1
  • The Golden Age
    1993.333
  • A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
    1990.196
  • Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
    61.198
  • Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
    89.15.21
  • Harpsichord
    89.4.2363
  • Bass Viola da Gamba
    1990.223
  • Samson Captured by the Philistines
    1984.459.2
  • The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
    37.165.3
  • The Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
    1991.7
  • The Genius of Castiglione
    17.50.17-36
  • Parade helmet a l'antique
    1997.341
  • Stove
    06.968.2
  • Marsyas
    2002.468
  • Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace
    06.1335.1a-d
  • Allegory of Music
    50.189
  • Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)
    14.40.619
  • Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717-1794) in the Guise of a Huntsman, with His Wife (Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff, 1732-1794)
    50.50
  • 55.86a-c
  • 34.86.1
  • 34.86.2
  • Soprano Recorder in B
    89.4.912
  • Alto Recorder in F-sharp
    89.4.2208
  • Alto Recorder in F
    89.4.909
  • Alto Recorder in F
    1982.390
  • Violin
    1974.229
  • Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
    26.70.4.20
  • Kast
    09.175
  • Lute
    89.2.157
  • Claviorganum
    89.4.1191
  • Rectangular Octagonal Virginal
    89.4.1778
  • Cornetto in A
    52.96.1
  • The Musicians
    52.81
  • Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field
    44.27
  • View of Toledo
    29.100.6
  • The Nymph of Fontainebleau
    32.105
  • ex
    1999.26
  • Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison
    1999.225
  • The Lamentation
    2000.68
  • Anatomical Studies: A Left Forearm in Two Positions and a Right Forearm
    1996.75
  • The Lamentation
    1984.74
  • The Virgin seated on a cloud
    17.50.18.147
  • Farnese Hercules
    17.37.59
  • Cup with cover
    17.190.622ab
  • Mars and Venus United by Love
    10.189
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