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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:: 28853
Medusa
mk65
Oil on canvas applied to a poplar-wood shield
23 5/8x21 11/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 28900
The Sacrifice of Isaac
mk65
Oil on canvas
40 15/16x53 1/8in
Uffizi.
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Painting ID:: 29001
The Tooth Puller
mk65
Oil on canvas
54 15/16x76 9/16in
Pitti.
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
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Painting ID:: 29002
Sleeping Cupid
mk65
Oil on canvas
28 3/8x41 5/16in
Pitti,
Palatine Gallery
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Painting ID:: 29003
Portrait of a Knight of Malta
mk65
Oil on canvas
46 5/8x76 9/16in
Pitti,Royal Apartments
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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: | Francia Alexandre | BOL, Ferdinand | saint tropez | Thomas Mann Baynes | Arturo Michelena |
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