Art and Religion in the Late Renaissance and Baroque

Protestant

Countries where art shifted from religious imagery to still lifes, political portraits, and landscapes due to economic growth and middle-class art patronage.

Catholic

Countries where religious imagery in art was still prevalent.

Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer

Three great masters of art in Protestant countries during the Late Renaissance.

Night Watch

A famous painting by Rembrandt during the Late Renaissance.

Frans Hals

A Late Renaissance artist known for portraits like 'Young Man and Woman in an Inn' and 'Bearded Man with a Ruff.'

Pieter Aertsen

Artist known for 'Butcher's Stall,' a painting with religious imagery subtly incorporated into everyday scenes.

Aelbert Cuyp

Artist known for 'Young Herdsmen with Cows,' a landscape painting from the Late Renaissance.

Holbein

Artist who moved to England to avoid religious conflict and painted 'The French Ambassadors' with symbolic tension between secular and religious authorities.

Hieronymus Bosch

Artist known for 'Garden of Earthly Delights,' a painting with surreal and fantastical elements.

The Four Apostles (Holy Men) Durer

Paintings by Durer depicting John the Evangelist, Peter, Evangelist Mark, and Paul, donated to Nuremberg.

Titian

Artist known for 'Venus of Urbino,' a painting that set standards for depicting reclining female nudes.

Caterina van Hemessen

Artist known for the first known northern European self-portrait by a woman during the Late Renaissance.

Baroque

Artistic style characterized by complex, dramatic, and gaudy compositions, influenced by geo-political conflicts and the Thirty Years' War.

Peter Paul Rubens

Artist commissioned by Marie de Medici to create paintings, known for 'Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles.'

Artemisia Gentileschi

Artist influenced by Caravaggio, known for dramatic paintings like 'Judith Slaying Holofernes.'

Caravaggio

Artist known for works like 'Calling of Saint Matthew,' using light and powerful bodies in his compositions.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Sculptor known for his marble works like 'David,' depicting intense action and emotion.