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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:: 318
Youth Bitten by a Green Lizard
1592-93
Longhi Collection, Florence
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Painting ID:: 319
Rest During the Flight into Egypt
1595-96
Galleria Doria Pamphili
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Painting ID:: 320
The Cardsharps
1595
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
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Painting ID:: 321
Medusa
1590
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 322
The Sacrifice of Isaac
c1596
Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, Princeton, NJ
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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: | Thomas Robins the Elder | Sergei Sudeikin | John warwick smith | constant permeke | Armand Palliere |
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