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Caravaggio
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.
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Painting ID:: 313
Martha and Mary Magdalene
1595
Detroit Institute of Arts
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Painting ID:: 314
Narcissus
1598-99
Galleria Nazionale de Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 315
Judith and Holofernes
1599
Galleria Nazionale de Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 316
Still Life with Flowers Fruit
1590s
RomeGalleria Borghese, Rome
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Painting ID:: 317
Youth with a Flower Basket
1595
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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Caravaggio
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: | Otto Hesselbom | BERCHEM, Nicolaes | cesar franck | John Melhuish Strudwick | Johann Liss |
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