Baroque art portrait

Create a classical and realistic portrayal of a Renaissance man expressing charity, inspired by antique baroque paintings.

Painting of an extremely surprised man, styled after Caravaggio's old master Baroque oil paintings.

by Fausto Zonaro. Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter and the court painter (Ottoman Turkish: Ressam-ı Hazret-i Şehriyari) of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. He was a prolific artist who created hundreds of works, most of which are of the Ottoman Empire.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610) Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ancient Art, Rome Italy Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

Assault. Murder. Consorting with the devil. The notorious succès-de-scandale of the 17th century, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was accused of all (...)

Portrait of an elegant lady

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]…