Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur. Related Paintings of CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista :. | The Rest on the Flight into Egypt | The Young Saint John in the Wilderness | Liberation of St Peter | Christ Before Caiaphas | Liberation of St Peter f | Related Artists: Paul Baum painted Landschaft in 1896 Benjamin Vautier painted Kinder beim Mittagessen in 1857 Giuseppe Dupra (1703 -1784 ) - Painter
