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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:: 328 The Annunciation
1609
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Nancy
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Painting ID:: 329 The Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence
1609
Formerly San Lorenzo, Palermo (lost)
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Painting ID:: 330 The Beheading of the Baptist
1608
St.John Museum, La Valetta
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Painting ID:: 5713 Sick Bacchus g
c. 1593
Oil on canvas, 67 x 53 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5714 Boy Peeling a Fruit df
c. 1593
Oil on canvas, 75,5 x 64,4 cm
Longhi Collection, 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: | Olof Hermelin | Aleksander Orlowski | Aristide Maillol | John Raphael Smith | Francisco Camilo |
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