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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:: 48648
Supper of Aaimasi
mk191
1596-1603
oil on canvas
139x185cm
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Painting ID:: 48649
Detail of Supper of Aaimasi
mk191
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 48650
Leaning younger in rose bush
mk191
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 50886
The Supper at Emmaus
mk216
The Italian Caravaggio was one of the great rebels of art
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Painting ID:: 53778
Lutspelaren
mk234
about 1596
94x120cm
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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: | alexis de tocqueville | William Aiken Walker | Cornelis Bega | Hermann Faber | eisabeth Vige-Lebrun |
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