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 :. | Madonna del Rosario (detail) dsf | The Beheanding of tst john the baptist | Supper at Emmaus (detail) dfg | The Crucifixion of St Peter | Supper at Emmaus |
Related Artists:
Henry Raschen
1854-1937
Albijn Van den Abeele
painted Coppice at Sint-Martens-Latem in 1898
Elizabeth Lyman Boott Duveneck
1846-1888 Elizabeth Lyman Boott Duveneck Gallery