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
Name
Technique
Boy Peeling Fruit
Oil on canvas
Boy Peeling Fruit
Oil on canvas
Boy Peeling Fruit
Oil on canvas
Boy Peeling Fruit
Oil on canvas
Portrait of a Prelate[14]