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Caravaggio The Conversion of St. Paul dg oil painting on canvas
The Conversion of St. Paul dg
Painting ID::  5766
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Caravaggio The Conversion of St. Paul dg oil painting on canvas



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  Caravaggio
  Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610 Italian painter. After an early career as a painter of portraits, still-life and genre scenes he became the most persuasive religious painter of his time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the apostles and martyrs, flattered the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation Church, while his vivid chiaroscuro enhanced both three-dimensionality and drama, as well as evoking the mystery of the faith. He followed a militantly realist agenda, rejecting both Mannerism and the classicizing naturalism of his main rival, Annibale Carracci. In the first 30 years of the 17th century his naturalistic ambitions and revolutionary artistic procedures attracted a large following from all over Europe.
  The Conversion of St. Paul dg
  1600 Oil on cypress wood, 237 x 189 cm Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome

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