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 :. | Medusa gg | The Martyrdom of St Matthew | Supper at Emmaus (detail) fg | Still Life with Flowers Fruit | david med goliats huvud |
Related Artists:
PLEYDENWURFF, Hans
German Northern Renaissance Painter, 1420-1472
Adalbert Waagen
painted Bucht von Palermo mit Blick auf Monte Pellegrino in 1896
Johann-Baptist Lampi the Elder
painted Portrait of Paweł Grabowski. in1790