Artist: Caravaggio Painting: Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist fg Introduction: c. 1607
Oil on canvas, 90,5 x 167 cm
National Gallery, London
Madonna del Rosario (detail) fdg Painting ID:: 5794
Artist: Caravaggio Painting: Madonna del Rosario (detail) fdg Introduction: 1607
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 64 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Madonna del Rosario (detail) dsf Painting ID:: 5795
Artist: Caravaggio Painting: Madonna del Rosario (detail) dsf Introduction: 1607
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 64 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610
Italian painter. After an early career as a painter of portraits, still-life and genre scenes he became the most persuasive religious painter of his time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the apostles and martyrs, flattered the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation Church, while his vivid chiaroscuro enhanced both three-dimensionality and drama, as well as evoking the mystery of the faith. He followed a militantly realist agenda, rejecting both Mannerism and the classicizing naturalism of his main rival, Annibale Carracci. In the first 30 years of the 17th century his naturalistic ambitions and revolutionary artistic procedures attracted a large following from all over Europe.
. Related Artists to Caravaggio : | Naish, John George | Carel de Moor | Ramon Casas i Carbo | Louis Buvelot | Edward Jukes Greig |