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 :. | Youth Bitten by a Green Lizard | Maria Magdalena | Supper at Emmaus (detail) f | The Tooth Puller | The Supper at Emmaus |
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Benoit Hermogaste Molin
painted Painting of Maria Adelaide, wife of Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy in 1848
Henryk Rodakowski
(1823-1894) was a Polish painter. He was befriended by the painter and activist Leon Kaplinski.
Aert Anthonisz
painted A French Ship and Barbary Pirates in 1615