Art baroque

Painted Hall at Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich returned to former glory in £8.5m project

Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940)⏭ was a Bohemian-born German painter⏩, specialized in portraits, figures and Rococo-style genre scenes. His style was generally realistic with Art-Deco⏩ elements.

In the spring of 1959, a twenty-one-year-old Australian named Robert Hughes made his first visit to Rome. The young student of architecture, as it turned out, had a gift for writing as well as a ravenous, penetrating eye. Though he gained in sophistication, he never lost his initial brashness, and that is why, in the end, he has such an original, persuasive take on the Eternal City. The reasons for Rome's staying power, Hughes argues, have to do with the city's eternal embrace of crassness…

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA BY ANNIE STEGG

Hubert Robert : Le Bassin ( détail )

Carlo Dolci (Florence, May 25, 1616 - Florence, January 17, 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His painstaking technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting. He painted chiefly sacred subjects, and his works are generally small in scale, although he made a few life-size pictures. He often repeated the same composition in several versions, and his daughter, Agnese Dolci, also made excellent copies of his works. [Oil on canvas, 71 x 54 cm]…

Often confused due to its overlap with the renaissance period, baroque is an artistic current that have left a huge mark on art. Baroque art has very extravagant influences. They are easily recognized because of the fine elements and details that focus on emotions rather than logic and geometry. Everything about baroque is passionate and interpretative, as most of the paintings and sculptures we see today are points of reference for art critics that discuss the evolution of art. While…

Caravaggio - Judith beheading Holofernes, 1599 (detail) >> http://www.explorartorium.info/?id=3356