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Caravaggio "The Taking of Christ" c.1598-1602
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland
Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Caravaggio "The Taking of Christ" c.1598-1602
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland
Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.