Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635 Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur.   Related Paintings of CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista :. | Salome g | Liberation of St Peter f | The Young Saint John in the Wilderness | Salome with the Head of John the Baptist | Christ and Caiaphas |
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