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Caravaggio
(redirected from Michelangelo 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)


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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) and Michelangelo Caravaggio (1571-1609) were the two greatest artists of their time.
Another, more compassionate contemporary, Giulio Cesare Gigli, captured the artist's tragic ambiguity when he exclaimed: "Such was the great Michelangelo Caravaggio, a miracle of art, a wonder of nature, though buffeted by unhappy fortune.
 
 
 
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