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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:: 5740
Portrait of a Courtesan fg
c. 1598
Oil on canvas, 66 x 53 cm
Formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin
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Painting ID:: 5741
Taking of Christ g
c. 1598
Oil on canvas, 133,5 x 169,5 cm
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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Painting ID:: 5742
The Taking of Christ dssd
c. 1598
Oil on canvas, 133 x 171 cm
Museum of Western European and Oriental Art, Odessa
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Painting ID:: 5743
Medusa gg
1598-99
Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 60 x 55 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 5745
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini kk
1599
Oil on canvas, 124 x 99 cm
Private collection, Florence
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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: | marc chagall | Hans holbein the younger | Jan Van Dornicke | Christian Gullager | Edwin Lord Weeks |
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