Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da |
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An Online Gallery Featuring many Hi Res images of the artist
A comprehensive collection of the artist's works, with historical comments on each piece of work.
Provides a brief biography, images and commentary on this Italian artist's work.
The story of the artist from his arrival in Rome, his connection to Cardinal del Monte, the two major commissions, the Contarelli and the Cerasi chapels. His troubled success, and the homicide he committed which made him a fugitive. We follow him in Naples, Malta and Sicily until he meets his fate at Porto Ercole on the Tuscan coast.
Biographical information on the Italian painter, and a selection of the artist's paintings.
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Baroque
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