Showing posts with label Baroque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baroque. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Great people: Peter Paul Rubens.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Holy Roman Empire. He was an artist.

Venus and Adonis (1635), Child with a bird (1614 and 1625), The Judgement of Paris (1606), Diana Returning from the Hunt (1615), and Landscape with Milkmaids and Cattle (1618) are Rubens' works.

Baroque was his movement.

Peter Paul Rubens had wives and children.

He died on May 30, 1640, in Spanish Netherlands.





Thursday, August 3, 2023

Great people: Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian architecture. Also, he created sculptures. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born on November 7, 1598, in Naples.

His movement was Baroque style.

Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625), Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-1652), David (1623-1624) are Bernini’s works.

He died on November 29, 1680, in Rome.





Monday, April 3, 2023

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty two.

                                             Gian Lorenzo Bernini.


“What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/66163-Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini

Friday, December 2, 2022

Great people: Caravaggio.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi also known as Caravaggio. He was born on September 29, 1571, in Milan, Italy.



Caravaggio was an Italian painter. Baroque was his style.

Caravaggio visited different places. His famous paintings; include: Young Sick Bacchus (1593), Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1596), Bacchus (1596), Medusa (1597), Basket of Fruit (1599), and etc.


Caravaggio died on July 18, 1610, in Porto Ercole, Italy.

Friday, June 4, 2021

Great people: Jan Vermeer.

 Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter. He was born on October 31, 1632, in Delft. 

Vermeer’s works were of Baroque and Dutch Golden Age paintings.

His famous paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665), The Milkmaid (1658), The Art of Painting or The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his Studio (1666-1668), Mistress and Maid (1667).


Johannes Vermeer had a wife.


Jan Vermeer died on December 15, 1675, in Delft.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Great people: Rembrandt.

 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch artist. Also, he was interested in printmaking and drawing. He was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, Netherlands.

The artist influenced Baroque and Dutch Golden Age. His works were very important for these periods. 

Rembrandt created created many famous paintings. The Abduction of Europa (1632), The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632), DanaĆ« (1636-1650), self-partraits, The Night Watch (1642), Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654), Hundred Guilder Print (1647-1649).

Rembrandt was married on Saskia van Uylenburgh since 1634 to 1642. They had children. 

The painter died on October 4, 1669, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.





Friday, August 16, 2019

Fashion.

Fashion often changes. It doesn't stand still. Fashion influences many things of its time.

Colors, clothes, arts, make up, shoes, and even lifestyle are parts of the fashion. Building styles, such as: Baroque, Rococo, Gothic, and ect. These were popular fashion styles for their periods. But time is changing, fashion is changing, too.

During history people had different types of clothes. Also, climate and weather were influences for it. On was replaced by another.

Sometimes a fashion may come back. Old names. jewelry, or symbols can appear again. Different things affect fashion.

This industry continues today.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-vector/fashion-collage-freehand-drawings-female-faces-1056146996

Fashion collage with freehand drawings, female faces

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-vector/fashion-man-set-fashionable-mens-sketches-1120695398

Fashion man. Set of fashionable men's sketches on a white background. Spring men.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-illustration/abstract-watercolor-brush-strokes-isolated-on-631392137

abstract watercolor brush strokes isolated on white, creative illustration, artistic color palette, grungy smear, red purple pink gold, fashion background

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Baroque.

Baroque style was important for European people from XVII until XVIII centuries. This type of art manifested itself in a variety of things. Painting, architecture, philosophy, music, sculpture, theatre.

Pictures of this era were bright. Example, Still-life by Josefa de Obidos. In Baroque architecture, popular was luxury. Baroque and Classicism have similar features.

Example, the Church of Saint Susanna at the Baths of Diocletain.

Baroque style was big on large premises. Furnitures were big, too. Mirrors with frames, chairs with luxurious backs, huge beds.

In music were popular composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Claudio Monteverdi.

Fashion of Baroque looked rich. Big dresses and wigs were very popular. Rich women used make up.

P.S. Baroque created a path for modern art.

Source of image:

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?autocomplete_id=&language=fr&lang=fr&search_source=&safesearch=1&version=llv1&searchterm=baroque&media_type=images&page=1&inline=179479043



Source of image:

http://www.shutterstock.com/fr/s/baroque/search.html?page=2&thumb_size=mosaic&inline=208215838



Source of image:

http://www.istockphoto.com/vector/j-s-bach-antique-engraved-portrait-23376632?st=f8a2c64