Compare Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, Velazquez’s Las Meninas, Vermeer’s Woman Reading a letter, and Rembrandt’s Night Watch.
Some of the greatest paintings of all time were completed in Europe during the Baroque period. Compare Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, Velazquez’s Las Meninas, Vermeer’s Woman Reading a letter, and Rembrandt’s Night Watch. Refer not only to the typical Baroque characteristics of each work, but also to those elements that make these works timeless and great.
