Baroque Paintings for the Living Room

Here are 32 Baroque paintings for the living room, painted between 1590 and 1743, with works by Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Peter Paul Rubens; the subjects they return to most are landscapes, and skies and weather. Above a sofa or fireplace it needs real scale, about two thirds of the furniture's width, so the famous works that suit it are landscapes, harbors, gardens and city views painted to be seen from across a room.

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Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 17¼ × 20 in landscape print (44 × 51 cm), centered 52 in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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32 Baroque paintings

Large painting of soldier asleep outdoors surrounded by two women and a cupid.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo, c. 1742–45 Art Institute of Chicago

View of Delphi with a Procession, Claude Lorrain, 1673, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of Greek landscape, classical architecture, yellow, red robed man reading.

Nicolas Poussin Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640 Art Institute of Chicago

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, Nicolas Poussin, 1658, oil on canvas

Nicolas Poussin Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658 The Met

Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1742–45, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden, c. 1742–45 Art Institute of Chicago

Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1742–45, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, c. 1742–45 Art Institute of Chicago

Italian Landscape, Claude Lorrain, c. 1630, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain Italian Landscape, c. 1630 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Ford, Claude Lorrain, possibly 1636, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain The Ford, possibly 1636 The Met

Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups across a sun-drenched plaza in front of a domed church next to a long, pale pink building in this horizontal painting.

Canaletto The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, 1742/1744 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a port-side town along a canal, with a church across the water from us in this horizontal landscape painting. A bright blue sky with billowing white, pink, and gray clouds fills the top two-thirds of the painting.

Canaletto Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice, 1742/1744 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a group of people gathered along the bank of a river that winds around a copse of tall trees to our left, past a hill to our right, and into the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Merchants, c. 1629 National Gallery of Art

Three women, one man, and a winged child gather near a cave opening within a vast, distant landscape in this horizontal painting. The people are small in scale, taking up the lower left quadrant of the composition, and all have pale skin.

Claude Lorrain The Judgment of Paris, 1645/1646 National Gallery of Art

People walk, sit, or stand on a plaza along a canal lined on the far side with buildings in this horizontal landscape painting.

Bernardo Bellotto The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1743/1747 National Gallery of Art

We look through shadowed trees at a river winding into the distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Annibale Carracci River Landscape, c. 1590 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a wide country road seen from above. The horizon is halfway up the painting, showing the flat, green land meeting the blue sky. Far in the distance there are faint blue buildings, including a tall tower.

Jan Brueghel the Elder Wooded Landscape with Travelers, 1610 National Gallery of Art

Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna, Claude Lorrain, ca. 1639, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna, ca. 1639 The Met

View of La Crescenza, Claude Lorrain, 1648–50, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain View of La Crescenza, 1648–50 The Met

Sunrise, Claude Lorrain, possibly 1646–47, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain Sunrise, possibly 1646–47 The Met

Rinaldo and the Magus of Ascalon, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1742–45, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo and the Magus of Ascalon, c. 1742–45 Art Institute of Chicago

Ecce Agnus Dei, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1655, oil on canvas

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Ecce Agnus Dei, c. 1655 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Philip IV, Diego Velázquez, c. 1632, oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez Portrait of Philip IV, c. 1632 Art Institute of Chicago

Harbour at Sunrise, Claude Lorrain, c. 1637 - c. 1638, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain Harbour at Sunrise, c. 1637 - c. 1638 Rijksmuseum

Diana Offered Wine and Fruit by Bacchus and his Retinue, Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1617 - 1625, oil on panel

Jan Brueghel the Elder Diana Offered Wine and Fruit by Bacchus and his Retinue, c. 1617 - 1625 Rijksmuseum

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, Claude Lorrain, ca. 1643, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, ca. 1643 The Met

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1635, oil on wood

Peter Paul Rubens A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, ca. 1635 The Met

Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid), Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1639, oil on wood

Peter Paul Rubens Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid), c. 1639 Cleveland Museum of Art

Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1730–35, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, 1730–35 Art Institute of Chicago

The Capture of Samson, Peter Paul Rubens, 1609–10, oil on panel

Peter Paul Rubens The Capture of Samson, 1609–10 Art Institute of Chicago

St. Albert of Louvain, Peter Paul Rubens, 1620, oil on panel

Peter Paul Rubens St. Albert of Louvain, 1620 Art Institute of Chicago

Virgin and Child, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1670, oil on canvas

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Virgin and Child, c. 1670 Rijksmuseum

Two women with pale skin look out at us from the other side of a rectangular window opening with a shadowy interior behind them in this vertical painting.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660 National Gallery of Art

Isabella of Bourbon, Wife of Philip IV of Spain, Diego Velázquez, c. 1632, oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez Isabella of Bourbon, Wife of Philip IV of Spain, c. 1632 Art Institute of Chicago

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