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Caravaggio "Adoration of the Shepherds" 1609
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas,
The Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy (Museo Regionale di Messina)
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 "Adoration of the Shepherds" 1609
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas,
The Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy (Museo Regionale di Messina)
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.