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Essay Archive - Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Probably the most revolutionary artist of his time, the Italian
painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists
before him. Through the use of his revolutionary techniques of selective
lighting, Caravaggio became a prominent painter in the Baroque period.
Discarding the traditional rendering of religious subject matter, he
brought to his painting a sense reality as it was in his time. In his
paintings he simplifies the classic religious themes and breaks them down
into something that could have taken place anywhere, ....
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