baroque, in art and architecture: High Baroque, c.1625–c.1660

The exuberant trend in Italian art was best represented by Bernini and Borromini in architecture, by Bernini in sculpture, and by da Cortona in painting. The classicizing mode characterized the work of the expatriate painters Poussin and Claude Lorrain. This period produced an astonishing number and variety of international painters of the first rank, including Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, and Anthony van Dyck.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Late Baroque, c.1660–c.1725
• High Baroque, c.1625–c.1660
• Early Baroque, c.1590–c.1625
• Divisions of the Baroque Period
• Baroque Architecture
• Baroque Sculpture
• Baroque Painting
• Bibliography

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