Caravaggio. Caravaggios style of painting is easily recognizable for its realism intense chiaroscuro and the artists emphasis on co-extensive space. Caravaggios revolutionary style influenced everyone from modern photographers to Scorsese but his life was just as provocative as his paintings writes Alastair Sooke.
Bacchus 1596 - by Caravaggio. The Madonna of the Rosary in. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school of which he is considered the first great representative.
Caravaggio byname of Michelangelo Merisi born September 29 1571 Milan or Caravaggio Italydied July 1819 1610 Porto Ercole Tuscany 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.
His mother Lucia Aratori came from a propertied family of the same district. Basket of Fruit 1596 - by Caravaggio. Caravaggio was born in Milan where his father Fermo Merisi was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the Marchese of Caravaggio. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was probably the most revolutionary artist of his time for he abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists who had idealized both the human and religious experience.