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The Resurrection by Cecco del Caravaggio (Francesco Buoneri)
The Resurrection, Cecco del Caragaggio (Francesco Buoneri) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Institute of Chicago. One of Caravaggio’s most important assistants and pupils was known as Cecco del Caragaggio, more recently identified as Francesco Buoneri. Though a number of works are…
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Eye Candy for Today: Caravaggio’s basket of fruit
Basket of Fruit, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) Image on Wikimedia Commons, with an article about the painting on Wikipedia. The original is in the Biblioteca Pinacoteca Academia Ambrosiana, Milan (not much in the way of info or images). This striking still life by the 16th century Italian master is in contention for being the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Caravaggio’s Medusa
Medusa, Cagavaggio Merisi On the Google Art Project. Click in the lower right of the image for zoom controls. The original is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Students of drawing and anatomy may feel, as I do, that the mouth of the Medusa is painted as if from a head that is facing the…
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Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, AKA Caravaggio, notorious bad boy of art, rebellious realist and master of chiaroscuro, spent much of his life, with all of its dramatic ups and downs, in Rome. His wild behavior and the scandalous brushes with heresy brought on by his insistence on using unrepentantly grungy commonfolk for his models in…
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Caravaggio in Rome
Michelangelo Merisi, AKA Caravaggio, was one of history’s great painters. Born in Milan, his later assigned name come from his father’s association with the town of Caravaggio. Caravaggio spent a good part of his checkered life in Rome, where an exhibition of his work goes went on display on the 20th of February and runs…
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Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus comes to Chicago
Caravaggio’s striking painting The Supper at Emmaus is one of the most respected and influential paintings in the canon of Western Art. The occasion of the painting crossing the Atlantic to be on display at The Art Institute of Chicago is an occasion to be noted; similar to the significant visit of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid…