Baroque

(1600–1700)

Level 2: Rooms 15– 32

Painting in Catholic Italy, Spain and France expressed a new sense of power, drama and deep spirituality. Secular subjects, such as still life, marine and flower painting, developed in the Protestant Netherlands. The 17th-century collection features artists including Rubens, Caravaggio, Velázquez, and Vermeer. Power, splendour, religion and myth feature in a display about the Royal Collection of Charles I and Henrietta Maria.

Rooms 15 - 34 Floorplan

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Explore the Baroque rooms

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Room 15 (Level 2)

Artists Inspiring Artists
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Room 15a (Level 2)

'Fine Painters'
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Room 16 (Level 2)

A New Art for a New Nation: Dutch Painting 1600–1700
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Room 17 (Level 2)

Modern Subjects: Dutch Painting 1600–1700
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Room 18 (Level 2)

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
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Room 19 (Level 2)

Land and Water: Dutch Painting 1600–1700
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Room 20 (Level 2)

A Different View of Flanders: Flemish Painting 1600‒1650
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Room 21 (Level 2)

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641)
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Room 22 (Level 2)

Rembrandt (1606–1669)
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Room 23 (Level 2)

The Cradle of Dutch Painting: Haarlem 1600–1700
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Room 24 (Level 2)

International Ambitions: Dutch and Flemish History Painting 1600–1700
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Room 25 (Level 2)

Still Life: European Painting 1600–1900

Explore the Gallery by periods and styles

Medieval and Early Renaissance (1260–1550)

Made between 1260 and 1550, these are the earliest pictures in the collection. They are works of great ambition and emotion, by artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, Jan van Eyck and Leonardo da Vinci.
Renaissance (1500–1600)

Inspired by Classical Antiquity, Renaissance artists developed new subjects, poses, compositions and ways of painting. The 16th-century collection includes works by Titian, Hans Holbein the Younger and Bronzino.
Baroque (1600–1700)

Painting in Catholic Europe expressed a fresh sense of power, drama and deep spirituality, while new secular subjects were developed in the Protestant Netherlands. The 17th-century collection features artists including Rubens, Caravaggio, Velázquez, and Vermeer.
Roccoco to Romanticism (1700 – 1800)

The 18th and early 19th centuries were a remarkable period of revolution and change. Formal artistic training, public exhibitions and increased travel transformed European painting. These rooms include work by artists such as Canaletto, Turner, Ingres and Gainsborough.
Towards Modernism (After 1800)

Experimental movements developed in late-19th- and early 20th-century painting, including Impressionism. These rooms feature many of the Gallery’s best-known works by artists including Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne and Monet.