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Caravaggio
Italian Baroque painter
born 1571 - died 1610
Also known as: Caravage, Michelangelo
Merisi, Michael Angelo da Caravaggio,
Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio,
Michel'Angelo da Caravaggio, Michelangelo
Morigi da Caravaggio, Michiel Angelo di
Caravajo, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaccio,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravach,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggi, Michel
Angelo Caravaggio, Michelangelo Caravaggio,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagio,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravege, Michel Ange
Merisi de Carravage, Michelangelo Merisi. |
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Employee of: Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640).
Influence on:
Angelo Caroselli (1585-1652),
Gerrit van Honthorst
(1590-1656)
CARAVAGGIO, MICHELANGELO AMERIGHI (or MERIGI)
DA (1569-1609), Italian painter, was born in
the village of Caravaggio, in Lombardy, from
which Michelangelo Morigi da Caravaggio received Caravaggio’s name.
Michelangelo Morigi da Caravaggio was
originally a mason's laborer, but
Caravaggio’s powerful genius directed him to
painting, at which Michelangelo Morigi da
Caravaggio worked with
immitigable energy and amazing force.
Michelangelo Morigi da Caravaggio despised every sort of idealism whether
noble or emasculate, became the head of the
Naturalisti (unmodified imitators of
ordinary nature) in painting, and adopted a
style of potent contrasts of light and
shadow, laid on with a sort of fury,
indicative of that fierce temper which led
the artist to commit a homicide in a
gambling quarrel at Rome. |
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To avoid the
consequences of Caravaggio’s crime
Michelangelo Morigi da Caravaggio fled
to Naples and to Malta, where Michelangelo
Morigi da Caravaggio was
imprisoned for another attempt to avenge a
quarrel. Escaping to Sicily, Michelangelo
Morigi da Caravaggio was attacked
by a party sent in pursuit of him, and
severely wounded. Being pardoned,
Michelangelo Morigi da Caravaggio set out
for Rome; but having been arrested by
mistake before Caravaggio’s arrival, and
afterwards released, and left to shift for
himself in excessive heat and suffering from
wounds and hardships Michelangelo Morigi da
Caravaggio died of fever on the
beach at Pontercole in 1609. Caravaggio’s
best pictures are the Entombment of Christ,
now in the Vatican; St Sebastian, in the
Roman Capitol; a magnificent wholelength
portrait of a grand-master of the Knights of
Malta, Alof de Vignacourt, and Caravaggio’s
page, in the Louvre; and the Borghese Supper
at Emmaus. |
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