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 Concert The Musicians | David with the Head of Goliath | Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach agypten | Supper at Emmaus | The Incredulity of Saint Thomas |
Related Artists:
Johann Carl Wilck
Johann Carl Wilck (1772 - 1819)
Ernst Gustav Doerell
painted A View of the Doubravka from the Teplice Chateau Park in 1832 - 1877
Pietro Da Rimini
active in the first half of the fourteenth century