Art History: Baroque and Rococo
Khan Academy Team
Explore Baroque & Rococo art history with Khan Academy! Learn about key artists, styles, and historical context of these influential movements.
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Smarthistory.org
Search results gathering Smarthistory's free essays and conversational videos on Baroque art, written by art historians and used widely in college survey courses. Covers individual works, artists, and the Counter-Reformation context that shaped them.
Baroque Art
Penguin's compact illustrated guide to identifying Baroque architecture, painting, and sculpture by their recurring visual features, with short entries on major monuments across Europe. A quick orientation rather than a scholarly survey of the period.
baroqueart.org
Baroque Art (baroqueart.org) is a comprehensive online resource dedicated to Baroque and Rococo art. It offers scholarly articles, artist biographies, period timelines, and a gallery of high-quality images with contextual notes.
Caravaggio
Yale University Press exhibition catalogue on Caravaggism, with scholarly essays and large plates showing how Caravaggio's dramatic lighting and unidealized realism were taken up by Roman followers and by visiting painters such as Rubens.
Versailles
Versailles - A book resource