The Best Baroque & Dutch Golden Age Documentaries

Art, Music & Design - 23 free documentaries about baroque & dutch golden age.

Start with Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (30 min, Great Art Explained), then The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer: Great Art Explained (18 min, Great Art Explained). All 23 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on baroque & dutch golden age is Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon.

• Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (30 min, Great Art Explained)
• The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer: Great Art Explained (18 min, Great Art Explained)
• Why Was Spanish Baroque So Intense? | Baroque! (59 min, Absolute History)
• Baroque: The Edgy Art Movement That Took The 17th Century By Storm | Baroque! (59 min, Absolute History)
• Caravaggio: His life and style in three paintings | National Gallery (31 min, The National Gallery)
• Enter the spellbinding world of Zurbarán | National Gallery (20 min, The National Gallery)
• Raiders of the Lost Art | Episode 5 | Vanishing Vermeers (45 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Great Art Explained: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez (31 min, Great Art Explained)
• Caravaggio, Bernini and Pozzo: Great Art Cities: Rome (22 min, Great Art Explained)
• Raiders of the Lost Art | Season 2: Ep. 3 | The Many Faces of Rembrandt (22 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Rembrandt: The power of his self portraits | National Gallery (28 min, The National Gallery)
• Caravaggio's Taking of Christ: Great Art Explained (14 min, Great Art Explained)
• Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• Chasing Rembrandt | Art and Economy: How the Dutch Golden Age Shaped the Market (53 min, Moconomy)
• Which is the Real Girl with a Pearl Earring? (12 min, The Art Assignment)
• Artemisia Gentileschi in 8 paintings | National Gallery (18 min, The National Gallery)
• Waldemar Januszczak: Caravaggio's influence | Beyond Caravaggio | National Gallery (61 min, The National Gallery)
• How Artemisia Gentileschi captures herself in the mirror | National Gallery (12 min, The National Gallery)
• Hip-hop photographer Eddie Otchere on Hendrick ter Brugghen | National Gallery (30 min, The National Gallery)
• Alketa Xhafa Mripa on Artemisia Gentileschi's self portrait | National Gallery (37 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Hélène Binet on Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal' | National Gallery (31 min, The National Gallery)
• Unexpected Views: Andrea Luka Zimmerman on Caravaggio | National Gallery (35 min, The National Gallery)
• Mat Collishaw: Inspired by Caravaggio | Beyond Caravaggio | National Gallery (51 min, The National Gallery)

Top-Rated Books About Baroque & Dutch Golden Age

1. Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon - View on Amazon
2. Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama - View on Amazon
3. Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook - View on Amazon
4. The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama - View on Amazon