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Jul 14, 2024 · Caravaggio (born September 29, 1571, Milan or Caravaggio [Italy]—died July 18/19, 1610, Porto Ercole, Tuscany) was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious works.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌ k ær ə ˈ v æ dʒ i oʊ /, US: /-ˈ v ɑː dʒ (i) oʊ /, Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Caravaggio, or Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the fathers of modern painting. Updated: Sep 13, 2019. (1571-1610) Who Was Caravaggio? Caravaggio was a...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.
Italian Painter. Born: September 29, 1571 - Caravaggio, Lombardy. Died: July 18, 1610 - Porto Ercole, Lombardy. High Renaissance. Mannerism. Baroque Art and Architecture. Caravaggio. Summary. Accomplishments. Important Art. Sick Bacchus (1593-94) Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1593-94) The Musicians (Concert of Youths) (c. 1595-96) Medusa (c. 1597-98)
Born Michelangelo Merisi, Caravaggio is the name of the artist's home town in Lombardy in northern Italy. In 1592 at the age of 21 he moved to Rome, Italy's artistic centre and an irresistible magnet for young artists keen to study its classical buildings and famous works of art.
Caravaggio , orig. Michelangelo Merisi, (born 1571?, Milan or Caravaggio—died July 18, 1610, Port’Ercole, Tuscany), Italian painter. He was orphaned at age 11. After an apprenticeship in Milan, he went to Rome in 1590, where he won the patronage of a cardinal.
Feb 23, 2024 · Caravaggio, one of at least five children, was born in 1571 on the feast day of the archangel Michael, which is why his parents, Fermo and Lucia Merisi, named him Michelangelo.
Caravaggio, originally Michelangelo Merisi, c. 1600 © Caravaggio was a Baroque artist and the greatest Italian painter of the 17th century. Michelangelo Merisi was born in September 1571 in...
Trained in Milan and active in Rome (1592–1606), Naples (1606–7; 1609–10), Malta (1607–8), and Sicily (1608–9), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was one of the most revolutionary figures of European art.
