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 :. | Sick Bacchus g | the death of the virgin | The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (detail) | The Martyrdom of St Matthew | The Cardsharps f |
Related Artists:
Volterrano
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1611-ca.1690
Karl Jakob Theodor Leybold
painted Portrait of a young woman in 1822
U.F. Beenfeldt
painted Margrethe Holck in 1777