The Burial of St. Petronilla is an altarpiece painted by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri around 1623. It simultaneously depicts the burial and the welcoming to heaven of the martyred St....
is the central marble group of a sculpture complex designed and completed by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini for the Cornaro Chapel of...
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary or Assumption of the Holy Virgin, is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, completed in 1626 as an altarpiece for the high altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady...
The Laughing Cavalier is a famous painting by the Dutch Baroque artist Frans Hals. The current title is a Victorian era invention; the subject does, in fact, sport an enigmatic smile...
Narcissus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, circa 1597-1599. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. The attribution of this painting to...
Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius is a sculpture by the Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, c. 1619. It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. The group sculpture represents...
The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, with the subject of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The first canvas was...
The Descent from the Cross is the central panel of a triptych painting by Peter Paul Rubens in 1612-1614. The painting is the second of Rubens's great altarpieces for the Cathedral of Our...
The Elevation of the Cross is a triptych painting by Rubens. Rubens painted The Elevation of the Cross after returning to Flanders from Italy. There is a clear influence of Italian...
A Lady Writing a Letter is an oil painting attributed to 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is believed to have been completed...
Apollo and Daphne is a baroque, life-sized marble sculpture by Italian Gian Lorenzo Bernini, housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. It was inspired by one of the stories included in Ovid's...
Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan by Dirck van Baburen of the Utrecht School, influenced by Caravaggio, is an example of Baroque chiaroscuro. The painting represents a tale from Roman...
The Choice of Hercules is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from 1596, it is housed in the Capodimonte Gallery of Naples. Carracci, who was in Rome from the...
The Prodigal Son in the Tavern is a painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden, Germany. Is is signed "REMBRANDT F.". It portrays two...
Artemisia Receiving Mausolus' Ashes is a painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt. It is housed in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain. It is...
The Beaneater is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from 1580-1590 , it is housed in the Galleria Colonna of Rome. The...
The Butcher's Shop is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from the 1580s , it is housed in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford. The painting...
The Flight into Egypt is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from c. 1604, it is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj of Rome. The painting was commissioned...
Domine, quo vadis? is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from c. 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery, London. The work shows Saint Peter in the moment...
Saint George and the Dragon is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1620), based upon the motif with the same name. It is housed in the Museo del Prado of Madrid. It was painted in Genoa...
The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis is a 1661-62 oil painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt, which was originally the largest he ever painted, at around five by five metres in the shape of a...
La Rendición de Breda , also known as El Cuadro de las Lanzas or Las Lanzas, is a painting by Velázquez, painted during the years 1634–35, and inspired while...
The Rape of the Sabines is a work of art based on a supposed event in early Rome where Romans took Sabine women by force and made them marry Romans.