Caravaggio brief biography of albert

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    A Short Introduction to Caravaggio, the Master Of Light

    Like many a great artist, the for­tunes of Michelan­ge­lo Merisi da Car­avag­gio rose and fell dra­mat­i­cal­ly. After his death, pos­si­bly from syphilis or mur­der, his influ­ence spread across the con­ti­nent as fol­low­ers called Car­avaggisti took his extreme use of chiaroscuro abroad. He influ­enced Rubens, Rem­brandt, and Velázquez—indeed, the entire Baroque peri­od in Euro­pean art his­to­ry prob­a­bly would nev­er have hap­pened with­out him. “With the excep­tion of Michelan­ge­lo,” art his­to­ri­an Bernard Beren­son wrote, “no oth­er Ital­ian painter exer­cised so great an influ­ence.”

    But lat­er crit­ics sav­aged his hyper-dra­mat­ic, high-con­trast real­ism. His style, called “tene­brism” for its use of deep dark­ness in paint­ings like The Call­ing of St. Matthew, is shock­ing by com­par­i­son with the fan­ci­ful Man­ner­ism that came before. In the video above, Evan Puschak, the Nerd­writer, explains w

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    FIAT LUX: Between Filippo and Caravaggio
    – Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Willie Valentine Fine Art Singapore (12 – 30 November )
    – Text by Enin Supriyanto

    Light.
    It is this natural phenomenon that all the time captivates human thoughts and perception. And it was light that eventually opened up the broadest realm for human apprehension of natural law. From Euclid, Ibn al-Haytam, Ibn Sina, and then Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, all have been fascinated by light. Filled with flaming curiosities and buzzing ideas in mind, they attempted to understand and reveal the secret of light. It was this understanding of light that finally heralded the ultimate achievement of Physics, and subsequently opened up a new way for human being to understand the nature of various physical phenomena.

    Nevertheless, no one could be so insightful in demonstrating the power of light as the determining aspect of representation—the depiction of many dramatic situations in human lives—if

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    List of paintings by Caravaggio

    Painting Year
    Name City, Gallery Dimensions
    Technique Notes c. –
    Boy Peeling FruitFlorence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi × &#;cm
    Oil on canvasOne of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work[8]c.
    Boy Peeling FruitLondon, Hampton Court Palace – Royal Collection63 × 53&#;cm
    Oil on canvasOne of several versions, one of which is Caravaggio's earliest known work[9]c. –
    Boy Peeling FruitSwitzerland, Private collection (formerly Ishizuka Collection, Tokyo) 65 × 52&#;cm
    Oil on canvasOne of several versions, one of which fryst vatten Caravaggio's earliest known work[10][11][9][12]c. –
    Boy Peeling FruitLondon, The Dickinson Group × &#;cm
    Oil on canvasOne of several versions, one of which fryst vatten Caravaggio's earliest known work[13]c. –
    Portrait of a Prelate[14]Italy, Private Collection 68 × 53&#;c