About 17th century Art
Baroque painting and the varied markets of the Low Countries are important strands of this period. Portraiture, still life, landscape and sacred subjects reveal different relationships between close observation, dramatic invention and the purposes of an image.
A century is a chronological guide, not a movement. Follow the artist, region and subject links to understand an individual work more precisely. Dates here refer to the original artwork; a modern reproduction does not change that historical date.
