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Role (s): Artist, Prince. For works by Giovanni Baglione in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, click on the Works of Art tab below. For selected works from other institutions, follow this link to the Images page. Documents. Works of Art. Selected Bibliography.
Artworks. See all 3 artworks ›. The Ecstasy of Saint Francis, 1601. Giovanni Baglione. Sketches: Virgin and Child; Virgin and Child with Two Saints; Saint Baptizing Kneeling Figure, n.d. Giovanni Baglione. Flight into Egypt, n.d. Giovanni Baglione.
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Oil on canvas, 156.5 × 113.3 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Baglione's best known painting, Sacred Love and Profane Love (or The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros and other variants), was a direct response to Caravaggio 's Amor Vincit Omnia (1601–02).
Generally considered Giovanni Baglione’s most accomplished painting, this work is his first known “Caravaggesque” picture—that is, one that incorporates the innovative use of realistic figure types and dramatic lighting favored by the painter Caravaggio beginning in the late 1590s.
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Giovanni Baglione (1566-1643) Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti 1642. RCIN 1150674. ©. Description. Baglione was one of Rome’s leading painters in around 1600, and his compendium of the lives of over 200 contemporary artists shows that he was also a generous critic.
