How old was caravaggio when he died
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Wandering around Rome and dropping into churches where you can find extraordinary artworks, got me to thinking I should track down every Caravaggio in Rome. Doubtless been done numerous times before, but here is my attempt, together with a little bit of history about each painting.
The life and times of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
in and out of Rome.
29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610
Caravaggio trained as a painter in Milan under Simone Peterzano who had himself trained under Titian. In his twenties Caravaggio moved to Rome where there was a demand for paintings to fill the many huge new churches and palazzos being built at the time. It was also a period when the Church was looking for a stylistic alternative to Mannerism in religious art that would counter the threat of Protestantism. Caravaggio's innovation was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of contrast which came to be known as tenebrism (the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value).
He gained attention
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Caravaggio
His artistic style combined a realistic rendering of both the physical and emotional state of human nature and modelling figures with the use of sharp light and dark tones that gave the scene a dramatic effect. This technique is called chiaroscuro. He was eccentric and rebellious by nature and hence led a turbulent life. In May 1606 whilst working successfully in Rome, one of his many brawls resulted in Caravaggio killing a man named Ranuccio Tomassoni. The Roman authorities reacted swiftly by issuing a ‘bando capitale’ on his head. Fearing for his life, Caravaggio fled and headed for Naples that was outside the Roman jurisdiction.
After a successful period in Naples where he was given a number of important commissions, Caravaggio left for Malta. The island was the headquarters of the Knights of the Order of St John. Caravaggio travelled to Malta and arrived in July 1607 aboard a vessel of the Order. Caravaggio was soon accepted into the folds of the Order and on 14 July 1608, Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt, accepted him as a Knight of Obedience. The Gran
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Caravaggio
Italian painter (1571–1610)
For other uses, see Caravaggio (disambiguation).
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; , ; Italian:[mikeˈlandʒelomeˈriːzida(k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571[2] – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.[3][4][5]
Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggle
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