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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
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1597
A verified collection highlight at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1597. Oil on canvas.
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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
b. 1571, Milan, Italy · Based in Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily (d. 1610)
- Apprenticeship under Simone Peterzano in Milan
- Baroque Oil Painting
- Chiaroscuro
- Tenebrism
Caravaggio revolutionized Western painting with intense tenebrism, dramatic chiaroscuro, and radical naturalism, depicting biblical saints with the weathered faces and bare feet of Rome's everyday laborers.
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