Baroque Period
c. 1600–c. 1750
Dramatic, ornate style in art and music.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1600–c. 1750
- Place
- Europe
Who was alive during Baroque Period
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679, philosopher
- Shah Jahan 1592–1666, emperor
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680, sculptor
- Diego Velázquez 1599–1660, painter
- Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658, statesman
- Rembrandt 1606–1669, painter
- John Milton 1608–1674, poet
- Evliya Çelebi 1611–c. 1682, traveler
- Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695, astronomer
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- John Locke 1632–1704, philosopher
- Robert Hooke 1635–1703, scientist
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- William Penn 1644–1718, religious leader
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716, philosopher and mathematician
- Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741, composer
- Vitus Bering 1681–1741, explorer
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, composer
- Montesquieu 1689–1755, political philosopher