Caravaggio
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 :. | The Sacrifice of Isaac | The Raising of Lazarus fg | David | The Martyrdom of St Ursula f | Sleeping Cupid gg | Related Artists: Giovanni Francesco Guercino1591-1666
Italian
Giovanni Francesco Guercino Galleries Giovanni di FrancescoItalian Early Renaissance Painter, 1412-1459 kislind
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