Framed Spanish Baroque Paintings
Spanish baroque art has come to present us with a variety of paintings and sketches to choose from. A majority of the framed Spanish baroque art comes from the artist Diego Velazquez.
“The Lunch” done in 1620 by Velazquez features two men having a lunch of fish and bagels while a waitress pours more wine is still a painting seen in many places today. Some of the portrait paintings in he is famous for in Spanish framed baroque art are; the Infanta Margarita, Philip IV, Don Carlos, Queen Mariana, and Ferdinand of Austria. Velazquez also did a self portrait and one of his daughter at the piano.
Some of the most famous artist that have produced framed baroque Spanish works are; Eugenio Cajes, Vicente Carducho, Juan Martin Cabezalero, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, and Juan Carreno de Miranda. These artists worked with sketches and black white leaving the painting to other artists of the period.
There was some leaning to the religious side of this art with artists like Vicente Carducho and Antonio Castillo y Saavedra each creating their own version of Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment. Other superb pieces that fall into the religious category are; Triumph of the Cross, Saint Francis Interacting with the Virgin on Behalf of a Female Saint.