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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:: 5715
Boy with a Basket of Fruit f
c. 1593
Oil on canvas, 70 x 67 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5716
Boy with a Basket of Fruit (detail) fg
c. 1593
Oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5717
Boy Bitten by a Lizard f
c. 1594
Oil on canvas, 66 x 49,5 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 5718
St. Francis in Ecstasy f
c. 1595
Oil on canvas, 92,5 x 128,4 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
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Painting ID:: 5719
St. Francis in Ecstasy (detail) f
c. 1595
Oil on canvas
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: | Reginald Marsh | Osbert, Alphonse | NEUREUTHER, Eugen | Georges Michel | Jan van Noordt |
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