Tag: caravaggio
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CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610)
Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio ( 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 (1595?) and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. The tough and violent Caravaggio is […]
