CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur. Related Paintings of CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista :. | Lamentation of Adam and Eve on the Dead Abel | The Virgin and Child between John the Baptist and Mary Magdalen (mk05) | The Rest on the Flight into Egypt | Salome g | St Onophrius fg | Related Artists: Giuseppe Grisonibapt. October 24, 1699 - 1769) was a Flemish/ Italian painter and sculptor, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux.
Born in Mons, he studied in Florence under Tommaso Redi, abandoning his Flemish influences for the Italian tradition. In 1715 he travelled to London with John Talman and tried to establish himself as a portrait painter. One of his pupils was William Hoare (1707-1792)
WYNANTS, JanDutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1630-1684 GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpinoRome 1568-1640
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