BAROQUE ART

[itsthesmallthing]

“If you’re reading this, if there’s air in your lungs on this November day, then there is still hope for you. Your story is still going. And maybe some things are true for all of us. Perhaps we all relate to pain. Perhaps we all relate to fear and loss and questions. And perhaps we all deserve to be honest, all deserve whatever help we need. Our stories are all so many things: Heavy and light. Beautiful and difficult. Hopeful and uncertain. But our stories aren’t finished yet. There is still time, for things to heal and change and grow. There is still time to be surprised. We are still going, you and I. We are stories still going.”

— Jamie Tworkowski (via breanna-lynn)

[v-ersacrum]

Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante, Immaculate Conception (details), 1667-1668

[books0977]

[musicalinstrumentpics]

Saint Cecilia, 1606

Guido Reni (1575-1642), Italian

[instrumental-artistry]

Violoncello, ca. 1700 Anton Posch (Vienna, Austria)

- Materials: [Unlisted] - Body Length: 81.1 cm • String Length: 73.5 cm - Strings: 5 - Other Notes: The standard length of modern ‘cellos is 75 cm, and often older, larger instruments will get cut down. This one was not, and is the largest ‘cello in The Orpheon Foundation’s collection (possibly of all, as their site suggests).

Source: Orpheon.org

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting. Artist: Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, Rotterdam 1629–1684 Amsterdam) Date: ca. 1663–65 Medium: Oil on canvas

[jaded-mandarin]

Cornelis de Heem. Detail from A Still Life of Flowers and Fruit, 17th Century.

[jeannepompadour]

Portrait of a woman by Corneille de Lyon, c. 1540

[jeannepompadour]

Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Electress of Bavaria, by David Le Clerc, 1708

[jeannepompadour]

“Birth of the Virgin” by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, 1603 

[oldpaintings]

The Grand Column by François de Nomé, called Monsù Desiderio (French, c.1593–after 1630)

[centuriespast]

RUBENS, Peter Paul Hero and Leander c. 1605 Oil on canvas, 96 x 127 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

[centuriespast]

LA FOSSE, Charles de Clytie Transformed into a Sunflower 1688 Oil on canvas, 131 x 159 cm Grand Trianon, Versailles

[centuriespast]

ZURBARÁN, Francisco de St Casilda c. 1630 Oil on canvas, 171 x 107 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

[centuriespast]

A Girl Singing Ballads by a Paper Lanthorn

Henry Robert Morland (c.1716–1797)

Tate

[centuriespast]

A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel

Judith Leyster (1609–1660)

The National Gallery, London

[baroquealways]

Beautiful ouverture to Lully’s églogue en musique transcribed for theorbo solo by the luthist of XVII and XVIII century - Robert de Visée. Low register and dark timbre of this arrangement affects me in an unique way. Notice the contrast between the slow, majestic part and the quick and lively one!

[srednod]

Voorde tussen Ruïnes

Claes Pietersz Berchem

17th century