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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:: 62391
The Entombment
1602-03 Oil on canvas, width of detail: 30 cm Pinacoteca, Vatican The detail shows the head of Mary
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Painting ID:: 64297
card-players, c
1590-95
courtesy of the fogg art museum, harvard university, cambridge, mass
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Painting ID:: 67400
de sju barmhartighetsgarningarna
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Painting ID:: 68272
The Tooth Drawer
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 139.5 ?? 194.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 70717
David mit dem Haupt des Goliath
Medium Oil on poplar
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *90.5 ?? 116 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: | valkyrieritt | George Leslie | Benedito Calixto | Mair von Landshut | Nicolas de Largilliee |
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