page_title: Baroque painting
section_title: Baroque painters
hierarchical_section_title: Baroque painting / Baroque painters
caption_attribution_description: Español: El lienzo representa a San Pedro Apostol, primer papa de la Iglesia Católica y crucificado según la tradición en Roma durante el reinado del emperador Nerón. El apóstol aparece llorando por haber negado a Jesucristo tres veces en la noche anterior a la crucifixión de su maestro.
context_page_description: Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with Absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival, but the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states throughout Western Europe underscores its widespread popularity.
  Baroque painting encompasses a great range of styles, as most important and major painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century, and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque painting. In its most typical manifestations, Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep colour, and intense light and dark shadows, but the classicism of French Baroque painters like Poussin and Dutch genre painters such as Vermeer are also covered by the term, at least in English.
caption: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Saint Peter in Tears,  1650–1655
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