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Caravaggio was a master Italian painter, father of the Baroque style, who led a tumultuous life that was cut short his by his fighting and brawling. As a child and art student, he trained in Milan under a teacher who had been taught by the great Italian painter Titian himself, and who exposed him to the great works of Leonardo de Vinci and the ...
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- Medusa, C.1597
Caravaggio (1571-1610) painted two versions of the Head of...
- Young Sick Bacchus
‘Young Sick Bacchus’ was created in c.1593 by Caravaggio in...
- Saint Jerome Writing
That Saint Jerome Writing is the work of Caravaggio is...
- Boy With a Basket of Fruit
Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c.1593, is a painting generally...
- Narcissus, C.1599
Caravaggio painted an adolescent page wearing an elegant...
- John The Baptist (Reclining Baptist)
Believed to be his last painting, Caravaggio's "John the...
- Basket of Fruit, C.1596
Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the...
- Supper at Emmaus, 1602
Caravaggio seems to suggest that perhaps a Jesus could enter...
- John The Baptist, C.1598
‘John the Baptist’ was created in c.1598 by Caravaggio in...
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Boy Peeling Fruit. Florence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi. 75.5 × 64.4 cm. Oil on canvas. One of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work [2] c. 1592-1593: Boy Peeling Fruit. London, Hampton Court Palace – The Royal Collection. 63 × 53 cm.
PaintingYear NameCity, Galleryc. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling FruitFlorence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi75.5 × 64.4 cm Oil on canvasc. 1592-1593: Boy Peeling FruitLondon, Hampton Court Palace – The Royal ...63 × 53 cm Oil on canvasc. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling FruitSwitzerland, Private collection (formerly ...65 × 52 cm Oil on canvasc. 1592–1593: Boy Peeling FruitLondon, The Dickinson Group64.2 × 51.4 cm Oil on canvasPeople also ask
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- The Calling of Saint Matthew
- Judith Beheading Holofernes
- The Taking of Christ
- Basket of Fruit
- The Beheading of Saint John The Baptist
- Bacchus
- David with The Head of Goliath
- Narcissus
- Medusa
- Supper at Emmaus
Few painters are as well recognized for their ability to depict high degrees of light and dark as Caravaggio. His masterpiece, The Calling of St. Matthew, was finished in 1600 and contains a compelling Biblical scenario in which Jesus asks Matthew to follow him. The painting has received widespread appreciation for its extraordinary realism as well...
Caravaggio was famed for his ability to create paintings that accentuated the contrast between light and darkness, which plainly represent good and evil in many of his most famous works. In 1599, he completed one of his most notable pieces, Judith Beheading Holofernes, which the artist named Judith Beheading Holofernes. The picture is based on the ...
Caravaggio created this remarkable painting in 1602 for the Roman Marquis Ciriaco Mattei. Caravaggio used a novel visual approach to the biblical tale by positioning the characters close to the picture plane and using a sharp contrast of light and dark, imbuing the scene with an incredible sense of drama. As the temple guards approach to capture Ch...
Recognized for his expertise in painting situations that display strong contrasts between light and dark, the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is best known for his work in the genre of chiaroscuro. His painting Still Life with a Basket of Fruit is considered to be one of the best fruit paintings ever created, and it demons...
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is a 3.7 m by 5.2 m oil painting depicting John the Baptist’s beheading. It is presently housed at Valletta, Malta’s Oratory of St. John’s Co-Cathedral. With the use of chiaroscuro, the big canvas emphasizes the vibrant red and warm golden hues associated with the Baroque era. The artwork portrays John the Ba...
Bacchus (about 1596) is a Cardinal Del Monte-commissioned oil painting. Bacchus as a youngster is seen in the artwork, lounging classically with grapes and vine leaves in his hair and fiddling with the drawstring of his loosely draped robe. A dish of fruit and a huge carafe of red wine are set before him on a stone table. He invites the audience to...
According to art historians, David with the Head of Goliath is a self-portrait by Caravaggio. According to some, both figures are emblematic of Caravaggio, with the youthful David portraying a young Caravaggio and the severed and bloodied head of Goliath depicting Caravaggio as an adult. The picture is presently on exhibit in Rome’s Galleria Borghe...
Narcissus was painted between 1597 and 1599 and was not credited to Caravaggio until 1916 by Roberto Longhi. This is one of only two Caravaggio paintings known to depict a topic from Classical mythology, albeit this is more owing to chance than the artist’s output. According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Narcissus is a gorgeous young man who falls in lo...
Caravaggio made two renditions of Medusa – one in 1596 and another in 1597 – representing the precise moment she was slain by Perseus. He plays with the notion by substituting his own face for Medusa’s, indicating his immunity to her horrible stare. According to legend, the painting’s odd and elaborate design complements Caravaggio’s singular conce...
The Supper at Emmaus was painted around 1601 and is presently housed in the National Gallery in London. Originally, Ciriaco Mattei, cardinal Girolamo Mattei’s brother, commissioned and paid for this artwork. The artwork shows the moment when the resurrected but disguised Jesus appears to two of his followers (perhaps Luke and Cleopas) in the villag...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌkærəˈvædʒioʊ /, US: /- ˈvɑːdʒ ( i) oʊ /, Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 [2] – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
Here are five of his most famous paintings. The adolescent Bacchus (1595 - 1597) by Caravaggio Merisi Uffizi Gallery. 1. 'The Adolescent Bacchus'. Now one of Caravaggio’s most instantly recognizable early works, this painting of a young Bacchus—The Roman god of wine and harvest—was actually forgotten about for two centuries before it was ...
This work is notable as the only piece Caravaggio ever signed. The blood pouring from John's head oozes into the artist's centrally-positioned signature which reads as “Fra Michael Angelo”, which, according to art historian Keith Sciberras, denotes the artist's new social status as Michelangelo, Knight of Malta.
Aug 28, 2020 · First attributed to Caravaggio only in 1916, Narcissus is today in the collection of the National Gallery of Ancient Art in Rome, Italy. The Taking of Christ Besides Jesus, Judas and three Roman soldiers, the scene also includes St John and a man with a lantern who is commonly accepted to be Caravaggio’s self-portrait.
