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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:: 323
The Fortune Teller
1594-95
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 324
The Sacrifice of Isaac_2
1603
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 325
The Concert The Musicians
1595
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Painting ID:: 326
Lute Player5
1595
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 327
St.Francis in Ecstasy
1595
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
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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: | Alexander Coosemans | Silvestro lega | puccini | Charles james lewis | Marcus Gheeraerts |
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