Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur.
. Related Artists to CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista : |
Pedro Weingartner |
Archduke Rudolf of Austria |
Constantin Lecca |
Johann Jakob de Lose |
WERFF, Adriaen van der |
