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 :. | Salome with the Head of the Baptist fg | The young Bacchus | The Fortune Teller (detail) hjt | Medusa gg | Burial of St Lucy fg |
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jenny nystrom
född i Kalmar 13 juni 1854, död 17 januari 1946
Julius Lange
(1817 -1878 ) - Painter
Tommaso Ruiz
Active in Naples during the second half of the 18th Century