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Caravaggio is shown employing street people, drunks and prostitutes as models for his intense, usually religious paintings. He is depicted as frequently brawling, gambling, getting drunk and is implied to sleep with both male and female models. In the art world, Caravaggio is regarded as vulgar and entitled for his Vatican connections.
His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. [2] [3] [4] Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as ...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌ k ær ə ˈ v æ dʒ i oʊ /, US: /-ˈ v ɑː dʒ (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.
Printable version; In other projects ... Paintings by Caravaggio (1 C, 72 P) Caravaggisti ... (1986 film) Caravaggio (miniseries)
The Age of Caravaggio: an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 5-April 14, 1985, and at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. New York, Milan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Electa. ISBN 0-87099-382-8. Hilaire, Michel (1995). Caravage, le sacré et la vie. Paris: Herscher. ISBN 2-7335-0251-4. Longhi, Roberto ...
Released in 1986, Caravaggio [19] attracted a comparatively wide audience; it is still, barring the cult hit Jubilee, probably Jarman's most widely known work. This is partly due to the involvement, for the first time with a Jarman film, of the British television company Channel 4 in funding and distribution.
A lost Caravaggio painting that was almost mistakenly sold at auction for a bargain price is going on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, after being rescued and restored.
The Trieste version "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas" is published in the Maurizio Marini corpus catalogico "Caravaggio - Pictor praestantissimus" Newton & Compton - 2005 in position Q50. [27] The painting is declared as "d'interesse artistico e storico" by the "Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali Sopraintendenza Regionale del Friuli ...