Baroque portrait

Create a classical and realistic portrayal of a Renaissance man expressing charity, inspired by antique baroque paintings.

Francesco Curradi, Portrait of a Man in Black, 1611

Portrait of a man, Jacob van Oost the Younger, oil on canvas, date not given (poss. 1650s based on clothing).

Carlo Dolci (Florence, May 25, 1616 - Florence, January 17, 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His painstaking technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting. He painted chiefly sacred subjects, and his works are generally small in scale, although he made a few life-size pictures. He often repeated the same composition in several versions, and his daughter, Agnese Dolci, also made excellent copies of his works. [Oil on canvas, 71 x 54 cm]…

MATEO CEREZO BURGOS BAPT 1637 - 1666 MADRID "THE PENITENT MAGDALENE" signed lower right: Mateo f.c oil on canvas 110 by 88.5 cm.; 43 1/4 by 34 7/8 in. Sotheby's

National Gallery of Art

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known simply as Caravaggio, was an Italian artist at the turn of the 17th century whose influence rivals that of Michelangelo when it comes to Western art. While Michelangelo was known for a devotion to the idealized form of body and Christian spirit, Caravaggio was known for his ability to realistically

Portrait of Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, Princesse de Conti (1666-1732), three-quarter-length, in a red and gold embroidered dress, flowers on a red velvet cushion to her right, a landscape beyond

Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first women to achieve recognition as an artist, was born in Rome 425 years ago. "Portrait of a Lady, Three-Quarter Length Seated, Dressed in a Gold Embroidered Elaborate Costume" (17th century)

by Fausto Zonaro. Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter and the court painter (Ottoman Turkish: Ressam-ı Hazret-i Şehriyari) of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. He was a prolific artist who created hundreds of works, most of which are of the Ottoman Empire.