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Caravaggio
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Ca·ra·vag·gio  (kr-väj, kärä-vädj), Michelangelo Merisi da 1573-1610.
Italian painter of the baroque whose influential works, such as Deposition of Christ (1604), are marked by intense realism and revolutionary use of light.
Caravaggio (Italian) [karaˈvaddʒo]
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(Biographies / Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571-1610) M, Italian, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Michelangelo Merisi da (mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da). 1571-1610, Italian painter, noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro.
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Noun1.Caravaggio - Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)Caravaggio - Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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Perhaps not surprisingly, since it was painted about fifteen years after Caravaggio's death, the picture seems less an evocation of Caravaggism than a conventional "academic" exercise of the period.
Father & daughter at the Met. (Art) by Wilkin, Karen / New Criterion
Manfredi perpetuated the theme of the thieving fortune-teller, but the story was changed by Simon Vouet, who later, having abandoned the Caravaggism of his Roman period, became pre-eminent among the Parisian painters of his time, numbering Charles Lebrun and Pierre Mignard amidst his pupils.
CARAVAGGIO IN PICCADILLY by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
And it was to Naples that Domenichino and Lanfranco were called to execute major fresco ensembles, and where Stanzione left behind his affinities with late Mannerism and aspects of Caravaggism to take on the role of Guido Reni Napoletano.
Massimo Stanzione: L'opera completa by Colton, Judith / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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