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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:: 5792
Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist fg
c. 1607
Oil on canvas, 90,5 x 167 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 5793
Madonna del Rosario df
1607
Oil on canvas, 364,5 x 249,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Painting ID:: 5794
Madonna del Rosario (detail) fdg
1607
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 64 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Painting ID:: 5795
Madonna del Rosario (detail) dsf
1607
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 64 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Painting ID:: 5796
St Jerome dsf
1607
Oil on canvas, 117 x 157 cm
St John Museum, La Valletta
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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: | johann tischbein | Diego Quispe Tito | WRIGHT, Joseph | Josef Hoffmann | John Ferneley |
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