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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:: 43844
St. Francis in Ecstasy
c. 1595
Oil on canvas,
92,5 x 128,4 cm
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Painting ID:: 43845
Judith Beheading Holofernes
c. 1598
Oil on canvas,
145 x 195 cm
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Painting ID:: 43846
St. John the Baptist
1600
Oil on canvas,
230 x 175 cm
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Painting ID:: 43848
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
1601-02
Oil on canvas,
107 x 146 cm
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Painting ID:: 43849
The Crowning with Thorns
Oil on canvas,
178 x 125 cm
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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: | Giacinto Diano | William Nichol Cresswell | Charles S. Dorion | Eugen von Blaas | Hugh Carroll Frazer |
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