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 Crucifixion of St Andrew dfg | La Mort de la Vierge | St Francis g | The Fortune Teller (detail) drgdf | Crucifixion of Saint Andrew |
Related Artists:
john henry henshall,RWS
1856-1928
Louis emile pinel de Grandchamp
Beaune 1831-1894
James Shannonc
born in the United States and moved to England in 1878 where he trained at South Kensington 1862-1923