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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:: 45444 Fruits basket
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around 1597/98
Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
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Painting ID:: 45588 The meal in Emmaus
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1601 London, Natinal Gallery
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Painting ID:: 45590 Jungling with fruits basket
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around 1593/94 Rome, Galleria Borghese
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Painting ID:: 45657 Youthful Bacchus
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1596/97 Florence, Uffizien
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Painting ID:: 45708 Maria Magdalena
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1594/95 Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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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: | Abraham van den Tempel | Arnold Genthe | Domenico Quaglio | William Rimmer | marc chagall |
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