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 meal in Emmaus | Johannes der Taufer | Magdalene gd | St John the Baptist fdg | Youth with a Flower Basket |
Related Artists:
Adria Gual-Queralt
1872-1944
Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Antigna
painted The Fire in 1850-51
Robert Fenson
painted View with a Cottage by a Stream in Probably Late 19th Century