Italian Baroque Artists
Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, Architects, 17th Century Italy: Giovanni Bernini, Annibale Caracci, Alessandro Algardi.
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Italian Baroque Artists (c.1600-1700)

The Baroque Period

In 1517, Martin Luther triggered the Protestant Reformation, casting European-wide doubt on the value of the Roman Church. This led directly to the Counter-Reformation movement, launched by and based in Rome, in which renewed patronage of architecture and the visual arts was a key element. During the 16th century this led to the Mannerism style and, in the 17th century, to Baroque art.

Baroque Architecture in Italy

Famous Italian Baroque architects include: Giacomo Baozzi da Vignola (1507-73), papal architect to Pope Julius III and the Farnese family; Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), a designer who perfectly expressed the tenets of the Counter Reformation; Francesco Borromini (1599-1667), a lifelong rival of Bernini; and Pietro Berrettini da Cortona (1596-1669), a protege of Pope Urban VIII. For more about architectural design during the 17th century, see: Baroque Architecture.

THE BAROQUE ERA
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and sculptors from this period/
movement, see these resources:
French Baroque Artists
Dutch Realist Artists
Spanish Baroque Artists

PAINTING COLOURS
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pigments and hues used by
Italian Baroque painters,
see: Renaissance Colour Palette,
and 18th Century Colour Palette.

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ARTISTS SINCE 1800
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Baroque Sculpture in Italy

Famous Italian Baroque sculptors include: Giovanni Bernini (1598-1680), Guglielmo della Porta; Alessandro Algardi (1595-1654) a favourite of Pope Leo XI; Ercole Ferrata, one of Bernini's top pupils and Giovanni Battisto Foggini (1652-1725) the Florentine sculptor of the Medici family. For more, see also: Baroque Sculptors.

Baroque Painting in Italy

Famous Italian Baroque painters include: Guido Reni (1575-1642), the Bolognese master inspired by Raphael; Annibale Caracci (1560-1609), noted for his Farnese Palace frescos; Domenichino (1581-1641) who produced classical idealized landscapes and figures; Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647), noted for his large-scale illusionist decorative art; and Caravaggio (1571-1610) the enormously influential Italian Mannerist/Baroque painter and inventor of Tenebrism. Other key Baroque painters active in Italy include the French classicist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), and the French Italianate landscape artist Claude Lorrain (1600–1682). See also: Baroque Portraits.

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SCULPTURE
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in bronze, stone and clay,
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famous sculptors, see:
Sculpture Art.

MEANING OF ART
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values, and significance of the
visual arts, see: Definition of Art.

List of Italian Baroque Artists

Among the many Baroque masters of painting, sculpture, architecture and other visual arts in 17th century Italy, were the following:

Albani, Francesco (1578-1660) Painter (Bologna)
Albotto, Francesco (1721-1757) Painter (Venice)
Algardi, Alessandro (1598-1654) Sculptor (Rome)
Allori, Cristofano (1577-1621) Painter (Florence)
Amigoni, Jacopo (1682-1752) Painter (Venice)
Angeli, Giuseppe (1712-1798) Painter (Venice)
Angeluccio (Active 1640-1650) Painter (Rome)
Ansaldo, G. Andrea (1584-1638) Painter (Genoa)
Assereto, Gioachino (1600-1649) Painter (Genoa)
Baciccio (1639-1709) Painter (Rome)
Badalocchio, Sisto (1585-c.1619) Painter (Rome)
Baglione, Giovanni (c.1566-1643) Painter (Rome)
Balestra, Antonio (1666-1740) Painter (Verona)
Bambini, Nicolò (1651-1736) Painter (Venice)
Barbieri, Paolo Antonio (1603-1649) Painter
Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677) Painter (Bergamo)
Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622) Painter (Venice)
Bassetti, Marcantonio (1588-1630) Painter (Verona)
Bazzani, Giuseppe (1690-1769) Painter (Mantua)
Bellucci, Antonio (1654-1726) Painter
Belvedere, Andrea (1652-1732) Painter (Naples)
Benedetti, Andries (c.1615-1649) Painter
Bernero, Giovanni Battista (1736-1796) Sculptor (Turin)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Sculptor (Rome)
Bianchi, Pietro (1694-1740) Painter (Rome)
Bilivert, Giovanni (1576-1644) Painter (Florence)
Bimbi, Bartolomeo (1648-1730) Painter (Florence)
Bolgi, Andrea (1605-1656) Sculptor (Rome)
Bombelli, Sebastiano (1635-1719) Painter (Venice)
Bonazza, Giovanni (1654-1736) Sculptor (Padua)
Bonzi, Pietro Paolo (c.1576-1636) Painter (Rome)
Borgianni, Orazio (1574-1616) Painter (Rome)
Bracci, Pietro (1700-1773) Sculptor (Rome)
Brandi, Giacinto (1621-1691) Painter
Brizio, Francesco (c.1574-1623) Painter (Bologna)
Brustolon, Andrea (1662-1732) Cabinet-Maker (Venice)
Busiri, Giovanni Battista (1698-1757) Painter (Rome)
Cabianca, Francesco (1665-1737) Sculptor (Venice)
Caccianiga, Francesco (1700-1781) Painter
Cades, Giuseppe (1750-1799) Painter (Rome)
Caffa, Melchiore (1635-1667) Sculptor (Rome)
Caffi, Margherita (c.1650-1710) Painter
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1682) Painter
Camassei, Andrea (1602-1649) Painter (Rome)
Cametti, Bernardino (1669-1736) Sculptor (Rome)
Campagna, Girolamo (c.1549-1625) Sculptor (Venice)
Canal, Bernardo (1664-1744) Painter (Venice)
Canal, Giovanni Antonio (See also: Canaletto)
Canaletto (1697-1768) Painter (Venice)
Cantarini, Simone (1612-1648) Painter (Pesaro)
Cappella, Francesco (1711-1774) Painter (Bergamo)
Caracciolo, Giovanni Battista (1578-1635) Painter (Naples)
Caravaggio (1573-1610) Painter (Rome)
Carlevaris, Luca (1663-1730) Painter (Venice)
Carlone, Giovanni Andrea (1639-1697) Painter (Genoa)
Carlone, Giovanni Battista (1603-1684) Painter (Genoa)
Carneri, Matteo (1592-1673) Sculptor
Caro, Baldassare De (c.1689-1750) Painter (Naples)
Caroselli, Angelo (1585-1652) Painter (Rome)
Carpioni, Giulio (1613-1678) Painter (Venice)
Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602) Painter (Bologna)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Painter (Bologna)
Carracci, Antonio (c.1583-1618) Painter (Bologna)
Carracci, Lodovico (1555-1619) Painter (Bologna)
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Painter (Venice)
Castello, Valerio (1624-1659) Painter (Genoa)
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (1609-1664) Painter (Genoa)
Cavallino, Bernardo (1616-c.1656) Painter (Naples)
Cavarozzi, Bartolomeo (c.1590-1625) Painter (Rome)
Celesti, Andrea (1637-1712) Painter (Venice)
Cerquozzi, Michelangelo (1602-1660) Painter (Rome)
Cerrini, Giovanni Domenico (1609-1681) Painter
Ceruti, Giacomo (1698-1767) Painter (Lombardy)
Cesari, Giuseppe (1568-1640) Painter (Rome)
Cignani, Carlo (1628-1719) Painter (Bologna)
Cignaroli, Giambettino (1706-1770) Painter (Verona)
Cittadini, Pier Francesco (1616-1681) Painter (Bologna)
Codazzi, Viviano (1604-1670) Painter (Rome)
Coli, Giovanni (1636-1681) Painter
Collino, Filippo (1737-1801) Sculptor (Turin)
Collino, Ignazio (1724-1793) Sculptor (Turin)
Commodi, Andrea (1560-1638) Painter (Rome)
Conca, Sebastiano (1680-1764) Painter
Cornacchini, Agostino (1683-1754) Sculptor (Rome)
Corradini, Antonio (1668-1752) Sculptor
Crespi, Daniele (c.1590-1630) Painter (Milan)
Crespi, Giuseppe Maria (1665-1747) Painter (Bologna)
Creti, Donato (1671-1749) Painter (Bologna)
Dandini, Cesare (1596-1657) Painter (Florence)
Dandini, Pietro (1646-1712) Painter (Florence)
Diziani, Gaspare (1689-1767) Painter (Venice)
Dolci, Carlo (1616-1686) Painter (Florence)
Domenichino (1581-1641) Painter (Bologna)
Falcone, Aniello (1607-1656) Painter (Naples)
Fancelli, Cosimo (c.1620-1688) Sculptor (Rome)
Fanzago, Cosimo (1591-1678) Sculptor (Naples)
Felici, Vincenzo (Active 1667-1707) Sculptor (Rome)
Ferrari, Gregorio De (1647-1726) Painter (Genoa)
Ferrari, Luca (1605-1654) Painter
Ferrata, Ercole (1610-1686) Sculptor
Ferretti, Giovanni Domenico (1692-1768) Painter (Florence)
Ferri, Ciro (c.1634-1689) Painter (Rome)
Feti, Domenico (c.1589-1623) Painter (Venice)
Ficherelli, Felice (1603-1660) Painter (Florence)
Finelli, Giuliano (1601-1653) Sculptor (Rome)
Foggini, Giambattista (1652-1725) Sculptor (Florence)
Forabosco, Girolamo (1605-1679) Painter (Venice)
Forte, Luca (c.1615-1670) Painter (Naples)
Franceschini, Baldassarre (1611-1690) Painter (Florence)
Franceschini, Marcantonio (1648-1729) Painter (Bologna)
Franchi, Antonio (1638-1709) Painter (Lucca)
Fuga, Ferdinando (1699-1781) Architect
Fumiani, Giovanni Antonio (c.1645-1710) Painter (Venice)
Furini, Francesco (1600-1646) Painter (Florence)
Galizia, Fede (1578-1630) Painter (Milan)
Garola, Pietro Francesco (1638-1716) Painter
Garzoni, Giovanna (1600-1670) Painter
Gennari, Cesare (1637-1688) Painter (Bologna)
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Painter
Gherardi, Antonio (1638-1702) Sculptor (Rome)
Gherardi, Filippo (1643-1704) Painter (Venice)
Ghislandi, Vittore (1655-1743) Painter (Bergamo)
Giaquinto, Corrado (1703-1766) Painter (Madrid)
Gimignani, Giacinto (1606-1681) Painter (Rome)
Giordano, Luca (1632-1705) Painter (Naples)
Giorgetti, Antonio (Active 1660s) Sculptor (Rome)
Gramatica, Antiveduto (c.1571-1626) Painter (Rome)
Grassi, Nicola (1682-1748) Painter (Venice)
Guercino (1591-1666) Painter (Bologna)
Guidi, Domenico (1625-1701) Sculptor (Rome)
Joli, Antonio (c.1700-1777) Painter
Lama, Giulia (1681-1747) Painter (Venice)
Lanfranco, Giovanni (1582-1647) Painter (Rome)
Langetti, Giovanni Battista (1635-1676) Painter (Venice)
Lauri, Filippo (1623-1694) Painter (Rome)
Lazzarini, Gregorio (1655-1730) Painter (Venice)
Leoni, Ottavio (1578-1630) Painter (Rome)
Liberi, Marco (c.1640-c.1685) Painter
Liberi, Pietro (1605-1687) Painter (Venice)
Ligari, Pietro (1686-1752) Painter (Valtellina)
Lion, Angelo (Active 1597-1621) Painter (Venice)
Locatelli, Andrea (1695-1741) Painter (Rome)
Lombardi, Giovanni Domenico (1682-1751) Painter (Lucca)
Longhi, Pietro (1702-1783) Painter (Venice)
Lovisa, Domenico (c.1690-c.1750) Graphic Artist (Venice)
Luti, Benedetto (1666-1724) Painter (Rome)
Maderno, Stefano (c.1576-1636) Sculptor
Maffei, Francesco (c.1600-1660) Painter (Venice)
Magnasco, Alessandro (1667-1749) Painter (Milan)
Mancini, Francesco (1679-1758) Painter
Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1582-1622) Painter (Rome)
Maratti, Carlo (1625-1713) Painter (Rome)
Marchesini, Alessandro (1663-1738) Painter (Verona)
Marieschi, Michele (1710-1743) Painter (Venice)
Marinali, Orazio (1643-1720) Sculptor
Marinari, Onorio (1627-1715) Painter (Florence)
Mario Dei Fiori (1603-1673) Painter (Rome)
Martinelli, Giovanni (c.1600-1659) Painter (Florence)
Mazza, Giuseppe Maria (1653-1741) Sculptor (Bologna)
Mazzoni, Sebastiano (c.1611-1678) Painter (Venice)
Mazzuoli, Giuseppe (1643-1725) Sculptor (Siena)
Mei, Bernardino (1612-1676) Painter (Rome)
Milani, Aureliano (1675-1749) Painter
Mochi, Francesco (1580-1654) Sculptor
Mola, Pier Francesco (1612-1666) Painter (Rome)
Molinari, Antonio (1655-1704) Painter
Montauti, Antonio (c.1685-1740) Sculptor
Moratti, Francesco (D. c.1719) Sculptor (Rome)
Morazzone (1573-1626) Painter (Lombardy)
Munari, Cristoforo (1667-1720) Painter
Mura, Francesco De (1696-1782) Painter (Naples)
Napoletano, Filippo (c.1589-1629) Painter (Rome)
Nazari, Bartolomeo (1699-1758) Painter (Venice)
Negri, Pietro (c.1628-1679) Painter (Venice)
Novelli, Pietro (1603-1647) Painter (Sicily)
Nuvolone, Carlo Francesco (1609-c.1662) Painter (Milan)
Nuvolone, Giuseppe (1619-1703) Painter (Milan)
Olivieri, Giovanni Domenico (1708-1762) Sculptor (Madrid)
Orsolino, Tommaso (1587-1675) Sculptor (Genoa)
Ottoni, Lorenzo (1658-1736) Sculptor
Pace Del Campidoglio, Michele (c.1610-c.1670) Painter (Rome)
Padovanino (1588-1649) Painter (Venice)
Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765) Painter (Rome)
Paolini, Pietro (1603-1681) Painter (Lucca)
Parodi, Filippo (1630-1702) Sculptor (Genoa)
Passeri, Giuseppe (1654-1714) Painter (Rome)
Pellegrini, Giovanni Antonio (1675-1741) Painter (Venice)
Pellegrini, Girolamo (c.1624-c.1700) Painter (Rome)
Peranda, Sante (1566-1638) Painter (Venice)
Piamontini, Giuseppe (1664-1742) Sculptor (Florence)
Piazzetta, Giacomo (1640-1705) Sculptor (Venice)
Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista (1683-1754) Painter (Venice)
Pietro Da Cortona (1596-1669) Painter (Rome)
Pignoni, Simone (1611-1698) Painter (Florence)
Piola, Domenico (1627-1703) Painter (Genoa)
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778) Graphic Artist
Pittoni, Giambattista (1687-1767) Painter (Venice)
Po, Giacomo Del (1652-1726) Painter (Naples)
Podesta, Giovanni Andrea (1608-1674) Painter
Ponsonelli, Giacomo Antonio (1654-1735) Sculptor (Genoa)
Ponzio, Flaminio (1559-1613) Sculptor
Porpora, Paolo (1617-1670s) Painter (Naples)
Porta, Giacomo Della (c.1533-1602) Architect
Pozzo, Andrea (1642-1709) Painter
Preti, Mattia (1613-1699) Painter (Malta)
Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (1574-1625) Painter (Milan)
Queirolo, Francesco (1704-1762) Sculptor (Naples)
Raggi, Antonio (1624-1686) Sculptor (Rome)
Recco, Giuseppe (1634-1695) Painter (Naples)
Remps, Domenico (c.1620-c.1699) Painter (Venice)
Reni, Guido (1575-1642) Painter (Bologna)
Ricci, Marco (1676-1729) Painter (Venice)
Ricci, Sebastiano (1659-1734) Painter (Venice)
Ridolfi, Carlo (1594-1658) Painter (Venice)
Riminaldi, Orazio (1593-1630) Painter
Roccatagliata, Nicolò (Active 1593-1636) Sculptor (Venice)
Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (1610-1662) Painter
Rosa, Salvator (1615-1673) Painter
Rosselli, Matteo (1578-1650) Painter (Florence)
Rotari, Pietro Antonio (1707-1762) Painter
Ruoppolo, Giovanni Battista (1629-1693) Painter (Naples)
Rusconi, Camillo (1658-1728) Sculptor (Rome)
Sacchi, Andrea (1599-1661) Painter (Rome)
Salimbeni, Ventura (1567-1613) Painter (Siena)
Salini, Tommaso (1575-1625) Painter (Rome)
Salucci, Alessandro (1590-1655/60) Painter (Rome)
Salvi, Niccolò (1697-1751) Sculptor (Rome)
Saraceni, Carlo (1579-1620) Painter (Rome)
Sassoferrato (1609-1685) Painter (Central Italy)
Schedoni, Bartolomeo (1578-1615) Painter (Parma)
Schiaffino, Francesco Maria (1688-1763) Sculptor (Genoa)
Serodine, Giovanni (1600-1630) Painter (Rome)
Serpotta, Giacomo (1652-1732) Sculptor (Sicily)
Simonini, Francesco (1686-1755) Painter (Venice)
Sirani, Elisabetta (1638-1665) Painter (Bologna)
Sirani, Giovanni Andrea (1610-1670) Painter (Bologna)
Soldani Benzi, Massimiliano (1656-1740) Sculptor
Solimena, Francesco (1657-1743) Painter (Naples)
Spada, Lionello (1576-1622) Painter (Bologna)
Spinazzi, Innocenzo (1726-1798) Sculptor (Florence)
Spinelli, Giovanni Battista (Active c.1630-1660) Painter (Naples)
Stanzione, Massimo (1585-1656) Painter (Naples)
Stern, Ludovico (1709-1777) Painter (Rome)
Stom, Antonio (1688-1734) Painter (Venice)
Strozzi, Bernardo (1581-1644) Painter (Genoa)
Susini, Antonio (1580-1624) Sculptor (Florence)
Tacca, Pietro (1577-1640) Sculptor (Florence)
Tassi, Agostino (1578-1644) Painter (Rome)
Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630) Painter (Florence)
Terilli, Francesco (Active 1610-1630) Sculptor (Feltre)
Testa, Pietro (1611-1650) Painter (Rome)
Tiarini, Alessandro (1577-1668) Painter (Bologna)
Torelli, Felice (1667-1748) Painter (Bologna)
Torelli, Stefano (1712-1784) Painter
Torretti, Giuseppe (1664-1743) Sculptor (Venice)
Trevisani, Francesco (1656-1746) Painter
Turchi, Alessandro (1578-1649) Painter (Verona)
Uberti, Pietro (1671-1762) Painter (Venice)
Vaccaro, Andrea (1604-1670) Painter (Naples)
Vaccaro, Lorenzo (1655-1706) Sculptor (Naples)
Valle, Filippo Della (1698-1768) Sculptor (Rome)
Vanvitelli, Luigi (1700-1773) Sculptor (Naples)
Vassallo, Antonio Maria (c.1620-1664/72) Painter (Genoa)
Vecchia, Pietro Della (c.1602-1678) Painter (Venice)
Villamena, Francesco (1564-1624) Graphic Artist (Rome)
Viola, Giovan Battista (1576-1622) Painter (Rome)
Visentini, Antonio (1688-1782) Graphic Artist (Venice)
Zais, Giuseppe (1709-1789) Painter (Venice)
Zanchi, Antonio (1631-1722) Painter (Venice)
Zocchi, Giuseppe (c.1717-1767) Painter (Florence)
Zuccarelli, Francesco (1702-1788) Painter (Venice)

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