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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:: 29938
Bacchus
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Oil on canvas
37 3/8x33 7/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 30268
Details of Martyrdom of St.Matthew
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Gentle angel for a cardinal
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Painting ID:: 30269
Martyrdom of St.Matthew
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1599-160
The theatre of cruelty
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Painting ID:: 30270
Details of Martyrdom of St.Matthew
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Bloddthirsty murder,fear and horror
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Painting ID:: 30271
Details of Martyrdom of St.Matthew
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To bear witness and die for One's beliefs
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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: | Georges Michel | Robert Scott Duncanson | Carl Wimar | Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz | Charles Tournemine |
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