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 with a Flower Basket | St John the Baptist at the Well ty | The Seven Acts of Mercy (detail) dfg | Bacchus | Rest on Flight to Egypt (detail) fgf |
Related Artists:
Anna Chamberlain Freeland
1837-1911
Hindu painter
Richard Ettinghausen believes this work to have been painted in Agra in about 1625
Alexander Ignatius Roche
painted Italian Peasant Girl in 1861-1921