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 :. | Portrait of a Courtesan fg | Sick Bacchus g | St Jerome 1607 Oil on canvas | St. John the Baptist | the conversion on the way to damascus |
Related Artists:
Jose Legarda
painted Portrait of Manuel de Alday, bishop of Santiago de Chile in 1772
Lorenz strauch
1551-1630
swabian school
the lovers 1470 the cleveland museum of art, delia and l.e. holden funds