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 Entombment | madonnan med rosenkransen | Portrait of a Courtesan fg | The Fortune-Teller | Christian burial |
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Karl Jakob Theodor Leybold
painted Portrait of a young woman in 1822
Robert Whale
Born in Alternun, England in 1805. Died in Brantford, Ontario in 1887
BIONDO, Giovanni del
Italian painter, Florentine school (active 1356-1392 in Florence)