Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life. 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.
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Caravaggism is the movement of painters across Europe who directly adopted Caravaggios dramatic chiaroscuro and naturalism.
Caravaggio is the artist most closely identified with dramatic chiaroscuro.
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Painted by Caravaggio, 1600-1601.
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an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life
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Italian painter (1571-1610)
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life.
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