Italian Baroque art

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614–20, Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm, Uffizi, Florence

Italian Baroque art is a term that is used here to refer to Italian painting and sculpture in the Baroque manner executed over a period that extended from the late sixteenth to the mid eighteenth centuries.[1] Italian Baroque architecture is not covered.

  1. ^ The term Baroque may derive from the Portuguese word barocco which means an irregularly shaped pearl.