Baroque Passion

The Cross rendered with Baroque drama.

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The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

Henry Fuseli · 1796

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

The Burial of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770

Saint Margaret of Cortona

Gaspare Traversi · ca. 1758

Plate 21 from "Los Caprichos": How they pluck her! (¡Qual la descañonan!)

Francisco Goya · 1799

Gin Lane

William Hogarth · February 1, 1751

Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism

William Hogarth · March 15, 1762

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1786

Garroted Man

Francisco Goya · ca. 1775–78

Title Page, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Giovanni Bouchard · ca. 1749–50

The Adoration of the Magi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · late 1750s

Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

James Gillray · James Aitken · William Shakespeare · June 20, 1789

Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro

James Gillray · Hannah Humphrey · Madame Rose Didelot · Rose Parisot · Charles-Louis Didelot · May 5, 1796

Figures in One of Michelangelo's Niches on the Apse of St. Peter's, Rome

Hubert Robert · ca. 1763

Venus entrusting Cupid to Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758–80

The Entombment

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · Tommaso Piroli · 1772–1824

Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1788

Death of Ananias

John Constable · 1795

Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)

Jacques-Louis David · 1796/97

Landscape containing "Four Secretly Hidden Silhouettes"

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · Charlotte, Queen of England · Marie Antoinette, Queen of France · Louis XVI, King of France · Anonymous, German, 18th century · 1793–1800

The Death of St. Joseph

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · Alexander Bannerman · Alonso Cano · John Boydell · 1766

The Pier with Chains, plate 16 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1761

Three Angels Appearing to Abraham

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1726

Title Page from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1749–50

Holy Family with St. John and Two Angels

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · n.d.

Sketch for a Ceiling

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1750s

Titans Storming Mount Olympus

Henry Fuseli · c. 1770–72

The Cave of Despair

Henry Fuseli · c. 1769

Odin in the Underworld

Henry Fuseli · 1770/72

Thetis Mourning the Body of Achilles

Henry Fuseli · 1780

Male Figure with Left Arm Raised Seen from the Back, and Fragment of Old Man

Henry Fuseli · 1770/75

The Discovery (recto), Two Sketches of Standing Male Figures (verso)

Henry Fuseli · 1767/69

The Duke of Gloucester Lying in Wait for Lady Anne at the Funeral Procession of Her Father-in-law, King Henry VI (recto); Standing Male Nude, Leaning Forward (verso)

Henry Fuseli · 1760/67