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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da 1573-1610. Italian painter of the baroque whose influential works, such as Deposition of Christ (1604), are marked by intense realism and revolutionary use of light.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)
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“CARAVAGGIO ART LECTURE, Eric Denker discusses "In Memory of Caravaggio, 1571-1610." 1 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Aug. 19, National Gallery of Art, West Building, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW.”
The Washington Post: D.C. community calendar, Aug. 12 to 19, 2010
“Earlier that day, the London dealer had marched into the gallery and removed the Caravaggio from the wall.”
The Washington Post: Victims of art fraud describe personal, financial toll
“Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera.”
Caravaggio may have been the first master of photographic technique
“There's a case to be made, I think, that in his fusion of the epic and the domestic, the sublime and the mundane, Caravaggio is the first Modernist painter, if not artist in general.”
“Caravaggio is one of mine favourite painters too!!!”
“That Caravaggio is so dark and gloomy; let's lighten it up a little!”
“Like Joyce casting prostitutes as sirens, like Stevens trying to reach through the image of a bronze head of a god "almost to man", Caravaggio is cracking the artifice of grandeur, revealing the humanity at the heart of it.”
“Gorgon directly facing the viewer as in Caravaggio's famous painting [figure 27; cf. figure 28], the artist has chosen to arrange the face diagonally, pointing away from us, so that only half the features are visible.”
“(even in Caravaggio's version the Gorgon's eyes are not permitted to meet the viewer's); furthermore, "Medusa is already dead by the time she appears in art", [29] and what we see of her is not only partial, an inert fragment, but has been removed from its original and powerful context in the dark cave.”
“This is true for the work of Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi 1573-1610 but known most of life as simply Caravaggio, which is actually the town from which his family originated near Milan.”
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