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| Sebastiano Ricci Phineas and the Sons of Boreas ca. 1695 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini The Scourging of Christ ca, 1615-18 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Alessandro Turchi St Agatha attended in Prison by St Peter and an Angel ca. 1640-45 oil on slate Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Orazio Gentileschi St Francis supported by an Angel ca. 1600 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
" . . . painting is nothing other than the depiction of human actions: this was one of Poussin's principles, as Bellori observed. This idea also characterizes the Italians, indeed all the Romans, and not only the French. Bellori here intends not only external mechanical movement but also inner movement: the impulse of the will, dictated by the emotions – emotions are Michelangelo's Baroque innovation – as they express themselves in certain transitory movements of the body (especially changes of facial expression). The artist thus has to pay attention to the observation of the transitory; this is the main intent of all Italian Baroque painting, the depiction of momentary emotion. The representation of emotion also presupposes, as does any other movement, proximate vision. This type of depiction is the very opposite of the Germanic art of moods (Stimmungskunst). It is also connected with the dictates of the maniera grande, especially in painting, including the representation of the grandiose, the shocking, the meaningful, the victorious, the thrilling, and the striking, but not intimacy."
– Alois Riegl, from The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome, published in German in 1908, edited and translated by Andrew Hopkins and Arnold Witte and published in English by the Getty Research Institute in 2010
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| follower of Giovanni Andrea Sirani Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1650 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Bernardo Cavallino St Cecilia ca. 1645 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Bernardo Strozzi St Sebastian tended by St Irene and her Maid ca. 1631-36 oil on canvas (upper portion of altarpiece, as divided in the 17th century) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Bernardo Strozzi St Sebastian tended by St Irene and her Maid ca. 1631-36 oil on canvas (lower portion of altarpiece, as divided in the 17th century) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Luca Giordano Entombment ca. 1690 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Francesco Furini St Agatha ca. 1635-45 oil and tempera on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Carlo Maratti Flagellation ca. 1655-57 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Pietro Novelli David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Angelo Caroselli St Jerome in the Wilderness ca. 1620-30 oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Domenico Fetti Flying and Adoring Angels 1613-14 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |