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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:: 5802
Burial of St Lucy (detail) fg
1608
Oil on canvas, width of detail: 207 cm
Bellamo Museum, Syracuse
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Painting ID:: 5803
The Raising of Lazarus fg
1608-09
Oil on canvas, 380 x 275 cm
Museo Nazionale, Messina
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Painting ID:: 5804
The Annunciation fdgf
1608-09
Oil on canvas, 285 x 205 cm
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Nancy
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Painting ID:: 5805
Adoration of the Shepherds fg
1609
Oil on canvas, 314 x 211 cm
Museo Nazionale, Messina
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Painting ID:: 5806
Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence fdg
1609
Oil on canvas, 268 x 197 cm
Formerly San Lorenzo, Palermo (lost)
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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: | John Hamilton Mortimer | Albert Chmielowski | Gijsbrecht Leytens | SACCHI, Andrea | James Ensor |
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