Some links to end with Baroque art

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Source: http://www.diegovelazquez.org/home-1-96-1-0.html

If you like to learn about the hidden side of History, here you have an interesting link about Caravaggio´s life. This Baroque Italian painter was a brilliant artist, but had a very controversial personality. He killed a man on a fight, spent some time in jail and earned his living as a pimp (exploiting  prostitutes). If you want to read more about him, click on the link below: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/7840043/New-Caravaggio-biography-casts-light-on-Renaissance-hellraiser.html

And this link includes Velázquez´s biography and his complete works (244 paintings)

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/home-1-96-1-0.html

Venus at her mirror, (1647-1651)Velázquez

Source: http://admirersofbaroqueart.blogspot.com.es/2007/04/velazquez-venus-at-her-mirror.html