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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:: 5767 David fgfd
1600
Oil on canvas, 110 x 91 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 5768 The Sacrifice of Isaac fdg
1601-02
Oil on canvas, 104 x 135 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 5769 The Sacrifice of Isaac fd
1601-02
Oil on canvas, 104 x 135 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 5770 The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail) dsf
1601-02
Oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 5771 The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail) ff
1601-02
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 55 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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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: | James Hamilton | HALL, Peter Adolf | Robert Dodd | SQUARCIONE, Francesco | sigismund vasa |
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