Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610), broke the rules of ideal beauty inherited from the Renaissance. He set the sacred next to daily life: beggars, taverns, tired bodies.
His weapon was radical chiaroscuro. Bodies leap out of the darkness as if caught in a spotlight. That break announced the spirit of Baroque painting and turned the viewer into the witness of a drama.
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- 2Genius, violence, and exile
- 3Tenebrism: a light that strikes
- 4Saints who look like the street
- 5Caravaggism: a Europe under his influence
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