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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:: 40403
The Supper at Emmaus
mk156
1601
Oil and egg tempera on canvas
141x196.2cm
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Painting ID:: 40404
Boy with a Basket of Fruit
mk156
c.1595
Oil on canvas
70x67cm
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Painting ID:: 40405
The Fortune-Teller
mk156
c.1594
Oil on canvas
99x131cm
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Painting ID:: 40407
The Death of the Virgin
mk156
1601-1605/06
Oil on canvas
369x245cm
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Painting ID:: 41001
The Lute Player
mk159
c.1595
Oil on canvas
94x119cm
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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: | Cornelis Bol | Jean-Louis prevost le jeune | Vasa,Gustav Eriksson | Jules Lefebvre | Norman prescott-davies |
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