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 :. | Christ at the Column fdg | St Matthew and the Angel f | Lute Player (detail) gg | St John the Baptist at the Well ty | Woman with a Dove sdv |
Related Artists:
Matilda Browne
1869-1947
Horst Devens
painted Freiin Emma von Langenmantel-Rosenberg in 1873
Kuhn Justus Engelhardt
German artist d.1717