NOUN
- Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)
How To Use Caravaggio In A Sentence
- In using the work of Caravaggio, I show how he, in his Baroque manner, used diagonals and foreshortening to bring viewers into the picture plane and engaged us visually by leading us in and around the lights and darks.
- Anyhow, there's some Aristotle and Plato I want to read-a textbook on tenebrism I need to get through for my Caravaggio class. Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
- With his famous Lute Player, one of the highlights of the Städel's exhibition, Caravaggio had created the incunabulum of Baroque portraiture of musicians, a work enthusiastically received by his successors. Art Knowledge News
- His book is essentially a reheated, less assured version of Helen Langdon's meticulous cultural history, "Caravaggio" 1998, which remains by far the best—and best produced—biography of the artist. The Misery Memoirist
- The show will revolve around Caravaggio's famous Lute Player, an incunabulum of Baroque portraiture of musicians. Art Knowledge News
- Caravaggio pioneered the Baroque painting technique known as chiaroscuro, in which light and shadow are sharply contrasted and the discovery of his remains comes just days after a six month exhibition marking his death ended in Rome. Home | Mail Online
- For one, to modern eyes his successors' pictures often pale by comparison to Caravaggio's, interesting though they are in an art-historical kind of way. A Pathbreaker, Imitated Yet Unsurpassed
- For painters, naturalism was the greatest signifier of mortality, and Caravaggio was the greatest naturalist.
- Caravaggio pioneered the Baroque painting technique of contrasting light and dark known as chiaroscuro but was famous for his wild lifestyle - he is said to have killed a man in a brawl and fled Rome. Ireland.com Breaking News
- In the end, for all we have learned about his art, Caravaggio the artist and Caravaggio the man remain indivisible.
