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 | Supper at Emmaus | Bacchus (detail) fg | The Crucifixion of Saint Peter fd | Portrait of a Courtesan fg |
Related Artists:
Grigoriy Ugryumov
painted Alexander Nevsky in Pskov, after they victory over the Germans in 1793.
Master of the Saint Lucy Legend
Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, 15th Century
Anton Ritter von Stadler
painting Landschaft in 1909