Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Bacchus (1593-1594) oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 278

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Calling of St. Matthew (1597-1601) oil on canvas
Rome, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 288

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Conversion of Saint Paul (c. 1601) oil on canvas
Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 287

For More on Caravaggio

Annibale Carracci – The Triumph of Bacchus (1597-1601) fresco
Rome, Palazzo Farnese
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 277

Orazio Gentileschi – The Holy Family on the Rest During the Flight into Egypt (1628) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 292

Artemisia Gentileschi – Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1630) oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 289

Gianlorenzo Bernini – The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (1644-1647) marble
Altar of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Cornaro Chapel, Rome
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 116

Pietro da Cortona [Pietro Berrettini] – Hagar's Return (1637-1642) oil on canvas
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 294

Pietro da Cortona [Pietro Berrettini] – Triumph of the Barberini (1633-1639) fresco
Ceiling fresco in the Salone, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 295

For More on da Cortona

Domenichino [Demenico Zampieri] – The Last Communion of St. Jerome (1614) oil on canvas
Vatican, Pinacoteca
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 293

Guido Reni – The Abduction of Helen (1631) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 278

Baciccia [Giovanni Batista Gaulli] – Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1676-1679) fresco
ceiling fresco in Il Gesù, Rome
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 297

Carlo Maratta – Sleeping Christ Child with Music-Making Angels (1697) oil on wood
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 296

Sebastiano Ricci – Madonna and Child with Saints (1708) oil on canvas
Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 298

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) The Holy Family (c. 1590) oil on canvas
Toledo, Tavera Hospital
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 117

Diego Velázquez – Las Meninas (c. 1656) oil on canvas
Madrid, Musei del Prado
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 123

Francisco de Zurbarán – Saint Isabel of Portugal (1640) oil on canvas
Madrid, Prado
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 341

Jusepe de Ribera – Boy with a Clubfoot (1642-1652) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 284

Luis Eugenio Meléndez – Still Life with Figs and Bread – oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 343

Miles H. Hodges - 2011