Mannerism and the Baroque period saw significant changes in art due to political and religious upheavals in Europe. Mannerism emerged in the late Renaissance and was characterized by emotional, elongated styles influenced by Michelangelo. The Baroque period, which began around 1590, was heavily influenced by religious wars and saw highly emotional, dramatic styles develop in Italy, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Dutch Baroque painting is notable for its realistic depictions of everyday life and use of light.

1. Art in Transition Mannerism, the Baroque, and Beyond

3. Titian: Assumption of the Virgin (1518) The term, Mannerism, comes from a derisive remark describing the art as “in the manner of Michelangelo”

4. Tintoretto: Last Supper (1594)

8. The Baroque in Italy Caravaggio: Conversion of St. Paul (1601)

9. Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith Beheading Holofernes (c.1620)

10. Bernini: Ecstacy of Saint Theresa (1652)

12. Claude Lorrain: Embarkation of Saint Ursula (1641)

13. Hyacynthe Rigaud: Portrait of Louis XIV (1701)

14. The Baroque in the Spanish Netherlands (The Flemish) Peter Paul Reubens: Raising of the Cross (1611)

15. Rubens: Fall of the Damned (1618)

16. Rubens: Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Maria de’ Medici (1621)

17. Anthony Van Dyck: Portrait of Charles I (1635)

18. The Baroque of the Protestant Nations: Dutch Realism Gerrit van Honthorst: Adoration of the Shepherds (1621) Early Dutch painting follows much of the Mannerist tradition

20. Frans Hals: Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Guard Company (1616)

21. Judith Leyster: The Proposition (1631) Later Dutch painting retains much of the emotion Focuses on the human and sometimes the mundane Highly Realistic, use of lighting

22. Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch (1642)

23. Rembrandt: Supper at Emmaus (1648)

24. Jan van Goyen: River Scene (1656)

25. Jan Steen: World Upside Down (1663)

26. Jan Vermeer: Kitchen Maid (1658)

27. Vermeer: View of Delft (1662)

28. Vermeer: Allegory of the Art of Painting (1675)