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 Conversion on the Way to Damascus (detail) | Adoration of the Shepherds fg | The Calling of Saint Matthew fg | madonnan med rosenkransen | Magdalene gd |
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Jackals Kalila and Dimna
the period of 1465-1535
POEL, Egbert van der
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1621-1664
william Angus
1752-1821