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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:: 5725
Lute Player (detail) gg
c. 1596
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 5726
Bacchus (detail) gg
c. 1596
Oil on canvas, height of detail: 25 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 5727
Bacchus (detail) fg
c. 1596
Oil on canvas, height of detail: 25 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 5728
The Fortune Teller (detail) drgdf
1596-97
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 44 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 5729
The Fortune Teller (detail) hjt
1596-97
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 38 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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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: | Franciszek Kostrzewski | Johann-Baptist Lampi the Elder | oscar wilde | Pieter Bruegel | gosta adrian-nilsson |
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