Caravaggio Art
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), an Italian Baroque artist. He was active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. Caravaggio was considered enigmatic, fascinating, rebellious, and dangerous. Caravaggio was the best exemplar of naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. His use of models from the lower classes of society in his early secular works and later religious compositions appealed to the taste for realism, simplicity, and piety in art. Equally important is his introduction of dramatic light-and-dark effects - termed chiaroscuro - into his works.
Many Caravaggio's religious works feature violent struggles, grotesque decapitations, torture and death. For the most part each new painting increased his fame, but a few were rejected by the various bodies for whom they were intended, at least in their original forms, and had to be re-painted. The essence of the problem was that while Caravaggio's dramatic intensity was appreciated, his realism was seen by some as unacceptably vulgar.
Caravaggio was a "wild" and violent painter. Screams of terror assume a prominent place in many of Caravaggio's works. By the turn of the century, images of horror had begun to replace the gentle youths of his earlier work and dominate his work to an alarming extent. The wildness of his personality exploded into his art. Police archives in Rome confirm the "wild" and violent nature of the man. In 1606 Caravaggio killed, possibly unintentionally, a young man named Ranuccio Tomassoni in a brawl and fled from Rome.
Although the use of both realistic types and strong chiaroscuro originated in northern Italian art of the previous century, Caravaggio brought new life and immediacy to these aspects of painting, with which he effected a transformation of anticlassical Mannerism in early baroque Rome. Despite his personal protestations that nature was his only teacher, Caravaggio obviously studied and assimilated the styles of the High Renaissance masters, especially that of Michelangelo. Caravaggio's impact on the art of his century was considerable. He discouraged potential students, but throughout the century a naturalist school flourished in Italy and abroad based on an enthusiastic emulation of his style.
Famous and extremely influential while he lived, Caravaggio was almost entirely forgotten in the centuries after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered.
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- Boy Peeling a Fruit, 1593
- Boy with a Basket of Fruit, 1593
- Boy with a Basket of Fruit (Detail), 1593
- Sick Bacchus, 1593
- Boy Bitten by a Lizard, 1594
- St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1595
- St. Francis in Ecstasy (Detail), 1595
- Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1595
- Bacchus, 1596
- Bacchus (Detail 2), 1596
- Bacchus (Detail), 1596
- Lute Player, 1596
- Lute Player (Detail), 1596
- The Cardsharps, 1596
- The Fortune Teller, 1596
- The Musicians, 1596
- Magdalene, 1597
- Magdalene (Detail), 1597
- Rest on Flight to Egypt, 1597
- Rest on Flight to Egypt (Detail 2), 1597
- Rest on Flight to Egypt (Detail), 1597
- The Fortune Teller, 1597
- The Fortune Teller (Detail 2), 1597
- Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598
- Judith Beheading Holofernes (Detail), 1598
- Martha and Mary Magdalene, 1598
- St. Catherine of Alexandria, 1598
- Taking of Christ, 1598
- Medusa, 1599
- Narcissus, 1599
- Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, 1599
- David, 1600
- St. John the Baptist (Youth with Ram), 1600
- The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1600
- The Calling of Saint Matthew (Detail 2), 1600
- The Calling of Saint Matthew (Detail 4), 1600
- The Calling of Saint Matthew (Detail 5), 1600
- The Calling of Saint Matthew (Detail 7), 1600
- The Calling of Saint Matthew (Detail), 1600
- The Conversion of St. Paul, 1600
- The Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1600
- The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (Detail), 1600
- The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1600
- The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Detail 2), 1600
- The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Detail), 1600
- The Lute Player, 1600
- The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, 1600
- The Martyrdom of St. Matthew (Detail 5), 1600
- The Martyrdom of St. Matthew (Detail), 1600
- Supper at Emmaus, 1602
- The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1602
- The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, 1602
- The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1602
- The Sacrifice of Isaac (Detail 2), 1602
- The Sacrifice of Isaac (Detail 3), 1602
- The Sacrifice of Isaac (Detail), 1602
- Amor Victorious, 1603
- The Crowning with Thorns, 1603
- The Entombment, 1603
- The Entombment (Detail 2), 1603
- The Entombment (Detail), 1603
- St. John the Baptist, 1604
- St. John the Baptist 2, 1604
- Madonna di Loreto, 1605
- St. John the Baptist, 1605
- The Crowning with Thorns, 1605
- The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1605
- Ecce Homo, 1606
- Madonna Palafrenieri (Detail), 1606
- Madonna with the Serpent, 1606
- St. Francis, 1606
- St. Jerome, 1606
- St. Jerome 2, 1606
- Supper at Emmaus, 1606
- The Death of the Virgin, 1606
- The Death of the Virgin (Detail), 1606
- Christ at the Column, 1607
- Flagellation, 1607
- Madonna del Rosario, 1607
- Madonna del Rosario (Detail 2), 1607
- Madonna del Rosario (Detail), 1607
- Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, 1607
- St. Jerome, 1607
- The Crucifixion of St. Andrew, 1607
- The Seven Acts of Mercy, 1607
- Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1608
- Burial of St. Lucy, 1608
- Burial of St. Lucy (Detail), 1608
- Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, 1608
- Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt 2, 1608
- Sleeping Cupid, 1608
- St. John the Baptist at the Well, 1608
- Adoration of the Shepherds, 1609
- David, 1609
- Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, 1609
- Salome with the Head of the Baptist, 1609
- The Annunciation, 1609
- The Raising of Lazarus, 1609
- The Tooth-Drawer, 1609
- St. John the Baptist, 1610
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