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 Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail) ff | Neptune and Pluto | The Conversion on the Way to Damascus fgg | The Lute Player f | Sleeping Cupid gg |
Related Artists:
Carlo Portelli
c. 1508 - Florence 1574
Colijn de Coter
painted Christ as the Man of Sorrows in c. 1500
Tina Blau
1845 Wien ?C 1916 Wien