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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:: 34698
The Beheanding of tst john the baptist
mk96
1608
316x520cm
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Painting ID:: 34918
Head of the Medusa
mk98
c.1596-1598
Oil on a shield covered with leater
60x55cm
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Painting ID:: 39616
The Madonna of the rosary
mk150
Canvas
36.4x249cm
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Painting ID:: 39617
David with the head of Goliath
mk150
c.1606
Panel
90.5x116cm
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Painting ID:: 40401
Bacchus
mk156
c.1596
Oil on canvas
95x85cm
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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: | BRAY, Joseph de | HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van | Gaudenzio Ferrari | Vassily Maximov | Edmund Tull |
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