One of the great periods of art history, Baroque Art was developed by Caravaggio,Gianlorenzo Bernini and Annibale Carracci, among others. This was also the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Velázquez.
Baroque Art developed in Europe around 1600, as an reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism that dominated the Late Renaissance.
The High Baroque period can be considered to have started around 1630 and to have overlapped with the Mannerists until its extinction around fifty years later when the style continued on, although much changed. The most notable exponent was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), a highly individual artist who is still noted for his strongly contrasting use of light and shadow to model his figures—termed chiaroscuro.
Baroque style used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur from sculpture, painting, literature, and music.
Northern Baroque was a style favored in Catholic countries like Germany, Austria, and the Catholic parts of the Netherlands. There one of the most world's important artists. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), lived for much of his life after traveling in Italy and Spain. There he saw the work of High Renaissance and Baroque artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Titian (properly called Tiziano Vecelli c. 1487-1576) for himself. He settled in Antwerp, from where his family came, and worked as court painter to the Spanish Governors of the Netherlands.
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