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 CARAVAGGIO's Profile |
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| Age: | 101 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Country: |  Italy |
| Height: | 0' 0" |
| BodyType: | Average |
| Zodiac: |  Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22) |
| Last Login: | Sep 13, 2006 (1182 days back) |
About Me |
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an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, on which he had a formative influence. Even in his own lifetime Caravaggio was enigmatic, fascinating, and dangerous. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600, and never afterwards lacked commissions or patrons, yet handled his success extremely badly. The very earliest published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle some three years previously, tells how "after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him." In 1606 he killed another young man in a brawl and had to flee Rome with a price on his head. In Malta in 1608 he was involved in another major brawl, and yet another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. By the next year, after a career of little more than a decade, he was dead. Huge new churches and palazzi were being built in Rome in the decades of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and paintings were needed to fill them. The Counter-Reformation Church was searching for an authentic religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, were no longer felt to to be adequate. Caravaggio's gift to his large circle of cultured patrons (and almost all his paintings were for individual patrons, even when those patrons intended to donate them to churches), his novelty, was a radical naturalism which combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, approach to chiaroscuro, the use of light and shadow. In Caravaggio's hands this new style was the vehicle for an authentic and moving spirituality. Famous while he lived, Caravaggio was almost completely forgotten in the centuries after his death, and it was only in the last few decades of the 20th century that he has been rediscovered. Yet despite this his influence on the common style which eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism, the new Baroque, was profound. Andre Berne-Joffroy, Paul Valer secretary, said of him: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting." _______________________________________________ Some of my work....give it a sec.: |
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| painting, drawing, lighting, god, art, bizzare behavior, baroque, Caravaggisti, da vinci, jesus, abstraction, mannerism, naturalism, italy, death, birth, fine art
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I'd like to meet:artists and christ. |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian |
| Occupation: | Artist |
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