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Mar072022

Caravaggio: Intense Expression

DateMonday, March 7, 2022 at 9:00AM

Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas - 1601-02 - Oil on canvas - 42 1/8 x 57 1/2 in. - Neues Palais, Potsdam (click photo for larger image)After a lackluster apprenticeship, Italian painter Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (c. 1572-1610) went to Rome. By 1592, he was causing scandals, not only because of his volatile character and temper, but because of his controversial painting methods.

Caravaggio rejected the lengthy preparations traditional in central Italy at the time, preferring instead to work in oils directly from the subject—half-length figures and still life—as practiced by the Venetians. He aimed to make paintings that depicted the truth and he was critically condemned for being a naturalist.

The heightened emotions of his narratives are given intense expression with dramatic chiaroscuro and powerful foreshortening.

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