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 Concert The Musicians | Judith Beheading Holofernes | The entombment | Entombment of Christ | St Jerome 1607 Oil on canvas |
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Bergognone
active in Milan 1481-1522
The Freake Limner
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Paul Louis Martin des Amoignes
(1850- 1912 ) - Painter painted In the classroom. Signed and dated P.L. Martin des Amoignes 1886