Baroque art

Peter Paul Rubens

Statue of Ceres.  1615

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 

Josef Heinz: The Adoration of Shepherds, before, 1600

 National Gallery in Prague

Joseph Heintz the Elder (1564, Basel – 1609, Prague) was a prominent artist and court painter of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague but he also made a name for himself in Augsburg, Germany.

Cecco del Caravaggio 

Christ falls on the road to Calvary 1610

Slovakia National Gallery

Cecco del Caravaggio (active c. 1610 – mid-1620s and born around 1588/) is the notname given to a painter who worked in Rome in the early decades of the 17th century.  Little is known about Cecco del Caravaggio,  but he  presumably is to be identified with the painter Francesco Boneri and who received his name from the close relation with Caravaggio.

I bought these postcards from a flea market in Tallinn, Estonia