Artist: Michelangelo Merisi De Caravaggio (1572 - 1610)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Baroque
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Caravaggio Italy as Michelangelo Merisi, he was trained in Milan and Venice. Shortly thereafter, he traveled to Rome and painted and made altarpieces under the commission of Cardinal del Monte. Caravaggio was a leader in the Naturalisti painters, combining an emphasis on light and shadow and realism. Although his paintings were supposed to reflect religious imagery, Caravaggio held little regard for accuracy in his depiction of Christian figures. He went exile in 1606, after killing a man during an argument, and did not return to Italy until 1609 where he died from a fever in Sicily.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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LE COURONNEMENT D'EPINES (1ère moitié 17e siècle) by anonyme ; MERISI Michelangelo (d'après), CARAVAGGIO (dit, d'après) ; LE CARAVAGE (dit, d'après)
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The Denial of Saint Peter Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Lombard, 1571-1610)Oil on canvas; 37 x
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The Musicians, ca. 1595 Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Lombard, 1571-1610)Oil on canvas; 36 1/4 x
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Supper at Emmaus 1601 oil and egg tempera The National Gallery, London Italian
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Boy bitten by a Lizard 1595-1600 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Cardsharps (I Bari) c. 1594 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Italian
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Conversion of the Magdalen 1597-98 oil and tempera on c The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Couronnement D'Epines...(Crown of Thorns.)...fourth plate in the book..[Titles in Russian snd French]... Imperatorskaya Ermitazhnaya Galereya ä GalÈrie ImpÈriale de l'Ermitage (Saint Petersburg: Gohier De
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SAINTE MADELEINE EN EXTASE (4e quart 16e siècle ; 1er quart 17e siècle) by anonyme ; MERISI Michelangelo (d'après), CARAVAGGIO (dit, d'après) ; LE CARAVAGE (dit, d'après)
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness 1604-05 oil on canvas The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Italian
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Portrait d'Alof de Wignacourt (19e siècle) by anonyme ; MERISI Michelangelo, LE CARAVAGE (dit, d'après)
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Saint Francois d'Assise en prière ; Moine en prière (1892) by anonyme ; CARAVAGGIO (dit), MERISI Michelangelo (d'après)
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Salome receives the Head of Saint John the Baptist 1607-1610 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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LA FLAGELLATION DU CHRIST A LA COLONNE (1607 vers) by MERISI Michelangelo ; LE CARAVAGE (dit)
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PORTRAIT D'ASDRUBALE MATTEI DI GIOVE (17e siècle) by LE CARAVAGE (dit, genre de), MERISI Michelangelo (genre de)
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Polidoro Caldara Vulcan, after Polidoro da Caravaggio. engraving 1613
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The Rape of the Sabines, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio (after) (Italy, Caravaggio, circa 1499 - circa 1543)  (Artist), circa 16th century, Brown ink and wash
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Le Christ en Croix (17e siècle) by ANONYME
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Polidoro Caldara Naval Battle in the Tiber at Ostia, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Etching and engraving 15th - 16th century
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FEMME COUCHEE SUR LE DOS (1ère moitié 17e siècle) by MANNOZI Giovanni
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Joseph Cornell - Caravaggio Prince, Medici Slot Machine Variant c. 1950 box construction and Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Jean-Leon Gerome - Michelangelo 1849 oil on canvas Dahesh Museum of Art French
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La Vendange (1ere moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro (? ), POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (dit)
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La Vierge de Lorette (18e siècle) by BOUCHARDON Edme ; AMERIGHI Caravagio (inspiré par)
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La peste de Phrygie (?) (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro
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Figures et groupes de figures dans une architecture (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro
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Polidoro Caldara Frieze with soldiers and Tarquinius Engraving 1545
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Vase à deux anses, décoré, sur la panse d'une ronde de femmes et, sur l'épaule, d'un mascaron entre deux lions (1582 entre ; 1600 et) by ALBERTI Cherubino (graveur) ; CALDARA Polidoro (d'après), POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (dit)
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PROJET POUR UNE EMBARCATION D'APPARAT (1ERE MOITIE 16E SIECLE) by PERINO DEL VAGA (dit), BUONACCORSI Perino
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Polidoro Caldara Reapers Red chalk on laid paper 16th century
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Bernardo Daddi Naval Battle, after Giulio Romano or Polidoro da Caravaggio(?) Engraving 16th century
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Polidoro Caldara Lamentation Red chalk and wash on laid paper circa 1533 - 1543
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Giovanni Battista Volpato The Prophet Joel, after Michelangelo Engraving 17th century
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Giovanni Battista Volpato The Prophet Daniel, after Michelangelo Engraving 17th century
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Etudes de casques d'apparat, et de têtes by BUONARROTI Michelangelo
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Luigi Schiavonetti The Battle of Cascina (The Cartoon of Pisa), after Michelangelo Engraving 18 - 19th century
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Luigi Schiavonetti The Battle of Cascina (The Cartoon of Pisa), after Michelangelo Engraving 18 - 19th century
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Polidoro Caldara Naval Combat Pen andbrown ink and brown wash on laid paper mounted to a heavier sheet 16th century
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Figures d'hommes et de femmes : l'enlèvement des Sabines (?) (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro
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Saint Roch bénissant des pestiférés (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro
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Polidoro Caldara Decorative Drawings (Pitcher, Helmet, Vase) pen and brown ink and opaque watercolor over black crayon 15th - 16th century
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Hommes et femmes fuyant et se réfugiant dans une forêt à droite (recto) ; Etudes, dont une sainte Famille (verso) (1ere moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro (attribué), POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (dit)
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Scène de bataille by CALDARA Polidoro (d'après)
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Episode from the Story of Granida and Daifilo
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Polidoro Caldara Design for a Bronze Standard Pen and brown ink and brown ink wash on laid paper mounted to a heavier sheet 16th century
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Saint Roch donnant la bénédiction à un pestiféré : plusieurs études (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by CALDARA Polidoro
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Etude de figures d'après le Jugement dernier de Michelangelo (2e moitié 19e siècle) by CARPEAUX Jean-Baptiste ; BUONARROTI Michelangelo (inspiré par)
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Cherubino Alberti Adam and Eve after the Expulsion, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1628
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Aiguière à l'anse de triton et à la panse ornée de jeux d'enfants (1550 vers) by CALDARA Polidoro (d'après), POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (dit)
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Partie gauche de la façade du tombeau de Jules II , à San Pietro in Vincoli by BUONARROTI Michelangelo (école)
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Cherubino Alberti The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, after the engraving by Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio engraving 1591
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Cherubino Alberti Plate from the series Antique Vases, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1582
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Etudes de figures, d'après la voûte de la Chapelle Sixtine by BUONARROTI Michelangelo (école)
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Homme nu, de dos, études de jambes, d'une tête casquée, et de casques by BUONARROTI Michelangelo

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (23)
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Carrara Academy Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art: Caravaggio - the light in Lombard painting
This is the first time that so many works from all over the world are collected together to illustrate an original interpretation of the work of Caravaggio connected to the figurative culture of his native land, Lombardy. Please, leave also yo...
National Gallery: Carravaggio: The Final Years
This exhibition will concentrate on this relatively little known period in Caravaggio's career. It will bring together paintings from the remote centres in which he worked so that his profound late style can be fully appreciated for the first time...
Para/site Art Space: Paul Chan: First Exhibition in Hong Kong
An artist with multifarious endeavors , Chan works in digital animation, installation and drawing. Also a political activist, he spent time in Baghdad shortly before the war and organized protests against the Republican Convention in New York. <...
The Art Gallery of Ontario: Riches from Rome
Caravaggio
is considered one of the most important figures of the Baroque period - his dramatic realism and magic use of light influenced artists throughout Europe...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: after HISTORY: The Paintings of David Bierk
His compositions frequently address the nostalgia of our age for the traditional painting styles of previous centuries, while demonstrating how these classic styles have coalesced and been transformed to create the pluralism indicative of ou...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Studiolo: As Presented by Avigdor Arikha
The curator of the first exhibition is Avigdor Arikha, a painter as well as a brilliant writer, lecturer, exhibition curator and maker of documentaries on painting. Arikha has devoted himself to working from life, producing paintings and drawings ...
SpecialtyArts.Com, Inc.: Online Discussion Forum: Art and Technology - A Creative Combination For Over Five Hundred Years
Even if you did not hear any of David Hockney’s lectures earlier this year, it’s not too late to find why his controversial theory on art history stirred so much attention among the art establishment. You can now go online, see artwork cited as e...
Frye Art Museum: Gary Faigin: Tradition and Contradiction
Conducting these gentle tensions is the hand of a consummate formalist. The witty contradictions are made possible, even beautiful, because they float on a harmonious grid of symmetry and are...
Townhouse Gallery / Factory Space: Palimpsest: Photography by Nermine Hammam
The laying on of hands and the creation of a mark that will speak to its maker are older than either Islam or Christianity, however: echoes and harbingers of these rituals may be found in aboriginal explanations of how the universe came into exist...
Albemarle Gallery: Stephanie Rew: Figurative Works
Stephanie Rew was born in 1971. Raised in Edinburgh and educated at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. Since then she has been awarded the Canadian Elizabeth Greenshields Award in 1994 and her work has been singled out and recogni...
Opus6ix: Paintings by Jerry Ross Featured in Group Exhibition
Opus6ix has gathered up twenty or so of these works from Ross' attic for sale in a giant "blow art out the door" sale intended to get these works out of the attic and into people's homes. The prices have been deliberately set low to encourage ...
Ketterer Kunst: Old and New Masters to be Represented in the 256th Auction
Karl Spitzweg's Vision, the highlight among the New Masters, is estimated at DM 120,000 – 130,000. The Munich painter depicts the impressive moment of the apparition of an angel with an effective lighting. A hermit in his lonesome forest cave is a...
Everson Museum of Art: Frank Gillette: Digital Images, 1994-1999
Gillette imposes upon the computer imaging system a way of constructing pictures that avoids the visual characteristics that are seemingly inherent in that system. He ...
Everson Museum of Art: Frank Gillette: Digital Images, 1994-1999
Gillette imposes upon the computer imaging system a way of constructing pictures that avoids the visual characteristics that are seemingly inherent in that system. He ...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Still Life Redefined: Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans
Tillmans, who was born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany, moved to London in the late 1980s and worked as a fashion photographer for the London magazines I-D, Spex, Interview and The Face. He often photographed his friend...
Centraal Museum: Utrecht's Golden Age: Caravaggists and Italianists from Dutch Collections
Blankert, who began his career as a curator at the Centraal Museum in 1962 and subsequently achieved renown as one of the world1s leading Rembrandt and Vermeer specialists, chose a selection of key works from Dutch museum and private collectio...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art
Light, which makes vision possible, has always been a component of visual art, although in certain periods light has been more significant than in others. The tenebrism of Caravaggio and de la Tour, for example, represents the use of light in the...
National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
Artists bring dress and drapery to life, showing us how to see and feel it. In responding to contemporary fashion, they present to each age a compelling image of how clothes should be worn. The exhibition opens with a striking series of paired pai...
INTERNATIONAL ART LANDSCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOPSINTERNATIONAL ART LANDSCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOPS: LANDSCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOPS IN TUSCANY
Dates
01 June 2000 - 07 June 2000
20 July 2000 - 30 July 2000
01 August 2000 -10 August 2000
20 August 2000 - 30 August 2000
01 September 2000 -10 September 2000 The Location
The workshop will be held in the vi...
Barios Bar: 2-person show: Jerry Ross and Clarice Zdanski
Just as at the end of 1850, a group of young painters in Florence began to get together to oppose the academic approach by meeting at the Caffè Michelangelo, so now we too meet at Barios to keep the discussion alive. They were the "Macchiaio...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
Appleton Museum of Art: Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, and their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Twenty-nine remarkable drawings by Rubens will make up the opening section of the exhibition. These sheets range over the full course of the artist’s long and distinguished career and include, most, if not all, of the many aspects of Ruben’s draft...
Kimbell Art Museum: Giovanni Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist
In this focused exhibition, the Kimbell Art Museum brings together 10 of Moroni's finest and most innovative works from throughout his career, ranging from his earliest ...

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