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 with the Serpent df | Sleeping Cupid gg | David fghfg | Salome with the Head of the Baptist fg | Portrait of a Courtesan fg |
Related Artists:
Francisco Domingo Marques
painted Cat in 1842 - 1920
Axel Jungstedt
painted Portrait - Lady in Black Dress in 1882
karl madsen
(1855-1938), Danish art historian, director of Statens Museum for Kunst