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 Martyrdom of St Matthew | The Calling of Saint Matthew (detail) urt | St John the Baptist fdg | The Annunciation | madonnan med rosenkransen |
Related Artists:
Jorg Ratgeb
German Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1480-1526
Carl Wagner
1796-1867
Anthonis Van Dashorst Called antonio Moro
Utrecht 1519-Antwerp 1575