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Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with Absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival, but the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states throughout Western Europe underscores its widespread popularity.
St John's Co-Cathedral is a Roman Catholic co-cathedral in Valletta, Malta, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It was built by the Order of St. John between 1572 and 1577, having been commissioned by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the Conventual Church of Saint John.
Barrafranca is a comune and city in Sicily, southern Italy in the Province of Enna.
John Thomas Spike is an American art historian, curator, and author, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is also a prominent contemporary art critic and past director of the Florence Biennale. In 2007, Spike was appointed to the faculty of the Masters program in Sacred Art History jointly offered by the European University of Rome and the Pontifical Athenaeum, ‘Regina Apostolorum'. In 2011, Spike became a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia where he has also served as Assistant Director and Chief Curator of the Muscarelle Museum of Art since 2012.
Gaspar Roomer was a prominent Flemish merchant, banker, art patron and art collector who was active in Naples in the 17th century.
Francesco Cozza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Bernardo de' Dominici or Bernardo De Dominici was an Italian art historian and painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. As a painter he was known for his landscapes, marine vedute and genre scenes in a style characteristic of the Bamboccianti. He is now mainly known for his art historical writings and in particular the Vite dei Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Napolitani, a three volume collection of brief biographies of Neapolitan artists.
Events from the year 1699 in art.
The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family.
San Biagio is a Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church, located on Via del Carmine #4 in central Modena, Italy.
The Church of St George is a 16th-century baroque Roman Catholic parish church located in Qormi, Malta.
Casa Cosmana Navarra, sometimes known simply as Cosmana Navarra, is a 17th-century aristocratic townhouse in Rabat, Malta. The building belonged to Cosmana Navarra (1600-1687), for whom it is named until date, who was the main benefactress of the rebuilding of the Rabat parish church of St. Paul. The house is found in front of the parish church opposite the Wignacourt Museum. Most of the building was converted into a restaurant, namely the Ristorante Cosmana Navarra.
Saint George on Horseback is an oil painting by Mattia Preti painted in 1658. It is the altarpiece of the Chapel of the Langue of Aragon in St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. The painting was Preti's first work in Malta, and it is regarded as one of his masterpieces and one of the best examples of Neapolitan Baroque art.
Preti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Plato and Diogenes is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti and housed in the Pinacoteca of the Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy.
Francesco Vincenzo Zahra was a Maltese painter who mainly painted religious works in the Neapolitan Baroque style. His works may be found in many churches around the Maltese Islands, as well as in some private collections and museums. He is considered to be the greatest painter from 18th-century Malta.
