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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:: 5762
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (detail) fdg
1600
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 51 cm
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5763
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (detail) f
1600
Oil on canvas
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5764
The Conversion on the Way to Damascus fgg
1600
Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5765
The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (detail)
1600
Oil on canvas
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5766
The Conversion of St. Paul dg
1600
Oil on cypress wood, 237 x 189 cm
Odescalchi Balbi 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: | Maria Oakey Dewing | Jean-Jacques Henner | George Washington Lambert | Benjamin West | John Edward Brett |
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