Category: Baroque

Living dramatic. Might have looked boring in real time. No way to know. Landscapes by Baroque Italian artist Marco Ricci. Living from 1676 to 1730, he once had to flee Venice after killing a gondolier.

Classical capriccio of Rome. Undated, by 1730. Italian. Oil on canvas. Marco Ricci, painter(1676-1730). Private collection. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Classical_capriccio_of_Rome_-_Marco_Ricci.jpg

A Capriccio of Classical Rome. 1720s.,Itlaian. Oil on canvas. Marco Ricci (1676-1730) and Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), painters. Image source; Sotheby’s. In the public domain in the United States because the artists died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marco_Ricci_and_Sebastiano_Ricci_-_A_Capriccio_of_Classical_Rome.jpg
View with classical Roman ruins. Undated, by 1730. Italian. Oil on canvas. Marco Ricci, painter (1676-1730). Collections of the Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice. Image source: Didier Descouens. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca%27_Rezzonico_-Veduta_con_rovine_classiche_romane(Inv.133)_-_Marco_Ricci.jpg

Still lifes by German Baroque painter Georg Hainz (Hinz, Haintz, Heintz). Living from 1630 to 1688, Christian Berentz was one of the artists who studied with him.

Still life with an elaborate silver gilt standing cup, a basket of fruit, and a glass wine jug upon a partly draped table. 17th c, by 1688. German. Oil on canvas. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/old-masters-day-sale-2/still-life-with-an-elaborate-silver-gilt-standing
Still Life with Sweetmeats and a Rummer. 17th c, by 1688. German. Oil on canvas. Image © 2021 Auction house Lempertz. Fair use license. via https://www.lempertz.com/en/catalogues/artist-index/detail/hinz-haintz-heintz-georg.html



Still life. 17th c, by 1688. German. Oil on canvas. Unsigned, attributed to Georg Hinz. Image © 2021 Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers. Fair use license. via https://www.shannons.com/auction-lot/georg-hinz-attributed-german-1630-1688-still-life_0664AB7986
A Collector’s Cabinet. 1664. German. Oil on canvas. RCIN#RCIN 400918. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/400918/a-collectors-cabinet