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 entombment | The Tooth-Drawer gh | The Calling of Saint Matthew fg | Sick Bacchus g | Caravaggio |
Related Artists:
Jakob Bjork
painted Portrait of Jacob Johan Anckarstrom the older in 1776(1776)
Merian, Matthaus the Younger
Swiss, 1621-1687
charles burney
Period: Classical (1750-1819) Country: England Born: April 07, 1726 Died: April 12, 1814 in Chelsea