Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio 1571-1610Caravaggio's appearance on the artistic scene brought us the work of an artist whose paintings and personality embody apparently insoluble riddles. Artists, scholars, churchmen, aristocrats and ordinary people--in other words, all levels of society, play their part in the tragic existence of Caravaggio and his exceptional, highly original pictorial world. The artist was able to give immediate expression to the psychic states of human beings in images which had never been seen before. His radical innovations were appreciated by only a handful of his contemporaries, and made him enemies on all sides. For all that, his work was to mark a crucial milestone in the development of art, and it inaugurated a new age. The limitations of the Renaissance in both form and content were forgotten, and the distinction between exalted and humble subjects seemed to be brushed aside. |
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... Basket of Fruit ( ill . 23 ) can be regarded as the first unchallenged masterpiece of the still life genre , the Boy with a Basket of Fruit ( ill . 22 ) falls between genres . In competition with Zeuxis one could see how the birds ...
... Basket of Fruit ( ill . 23 ) can be regarded as the first unchallenged masterpiece of the still life genre , the Boy with a Basket of Fruit ( ill . 22 ) falls between genres . In competition with Zeuxis one could see how the birds ...
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Eberhard König. 22 Boy with a Basket of Fruit Oil on canvas , 70 x 67 cm Museo Galleria Borghese , Rome Grapes and vine - leaves also dominate this even more generously filled basket of fruit , which includes not only apples , peaches ...
Eberhard König. 22 Boy with a Basket of Fruit Oil on canvas , 70 x 67 cm Museo Galleria Borghese , Rome Grapes and vine - leaves also dominate this even more generously filled basket of fruit , which includes not only apples , peaches ...
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... basket of fruit makes it abundantly clear that an artist painted this picture , not a mathematician . It gives the basket the rhetorical quality which Jan Bialostocki tried to define as the main distinguishing feature of the Baroque ...
... basket of fruit makes it abundantly clear that an artist painted this picture , not a mathematician . It gives the basket the rhetorical quality which Jan Bialostocki tried to define as the main distinguishing feature of the Baroque ...
Contents
In Search of the Artist | 6 |
Essential Features of Caravaggios | 16 |
The Imitation of Nature the Ideal and the Hierarchy of Genres | 26 |
Copyright | |
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