Caravaggio "St John the Baptist" 1602-03

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)

 

Oil on canvas

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

Kansas City, Missouri USA

 

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.

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