Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1611-ca.1690  Related Paintings of Volterrano :. | Portrait of Antonio Baldinucci | Sleeping Cupid | Portrait of Cardinal Giovan Carlo de'Medici | A joke of the minister Arlotto | Hilas |
Related Artists:
Brooklyn
1866--1925
A. Bryan Wall
American, 1872-1937
MANFREDI, Bartolomeo
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1582-1622 Italian painter. In the 17th century he was known throughout Italy and beyond as Caravaggio's closest follower and his works were highly prized and widely collected. More than simply aping Caravaggio's style, Manfredi reinterpreted his subjects and rendered new ones, drawing upon Caravaggio's naturalism and dramatic use of chiaroscuro. His paintings were often praised by his contemporaries as equal to Caravaggio's and he was subsequently emulated and imitated by other Roman Caravaggisti during the 1610s and 1620s. Yet by the 18th century his works were forgotten or confused with those of Caravaggio himself,