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 Paintings of Caravaggio :. | Sick Bacchus g | The young Bacchus (mk08) | The Sacrifice of Isaac_2 | Saint Matthew and the Angel | St Francis c. 1606 Oil on canvas |
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Luis Tristan
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Edward Mitchell Bannister
Born in Canada, Edward Mitchell Bannister moved to Boston in 1848 to work as a ship cook
Jacopo di Arcangelo called jacopo del sellajo
Florence 1441/2-1493