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 :. | St. Francis in Ecstasy | The Conversion on the Way to Damascus fgg | St Francis c. 1606 Oil on canvas | Magdalene gd | The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail) f |
Related Artists:
Aron Gerle
painted Skargardsmotiv in 1860-1930
Bento Jose Rufino Capinam
painted Christ Wearing the Crown of Thorns in 1791-1874
Seldon Connor Gile
1877-1947 Seldon Connor Gile Gallery