Happy Birthday Caravaggio

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Happy Birthday Caravaggio

• 9/28/1573

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Supper at Emmaus
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Betrayal of Christ
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Calling
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Supper at Emmaus
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The Inspiration of St. Matthew
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Annunciation
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A Man with a Monkey
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Medusa
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The Tooth Pulling
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• BORN MICHELANGELO MERISI on September 28, 1573 in
  Caravaggio, Italy, he became known by the name of
  his birthplace. In a short life (he died at the
  age of 37) Caravaggio ruffled quite a few
  feathers with his dramatic painting style and
  equally volatile temper. His temper saw him kill
  an acquaintance over a game of tennis - that was
  not his first brush with the law. He was accused
  of hitting a fellow painter, wounding a soldier,
  throwing a plate of artichokes in the face of
  waiter, throwing stones at the Roman guard,
  misuse of firearms and injuring a man in defense
  of a woman.

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• Giovanni Bellori narrates "Caravaggio, although
  occupied by his painting, still found time to
  keep up his troublemaking. After spending several
  hours of the day at his painting, he would
  swagger along the city streets, with a sword at
  his side, clearly proving he had other interests
  beyond his art."
• Constantly on the run, Caravaggio fled to Naples
  then to Malta where he offended one of the
  Knights and was forced to flee to Palermo in
  Sicily. In 1610, Caravaggio set sail for Rome
  from Naples but after an argument with a sailor,
  was removed from the ship. The ship with his
  belongings sailed away and a distraught
  Caravaggio ran along the beach in the scorching
  sun for three days trying to locate the ship. He
  died alone on the beach of exhaustion and fever.
  A document granting him clemency arrived from
  Rome three days later.

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• Caravaggio aimed to make paintings that depicted
  the truth. He was the best example of
  naturalistic painting - striving to transform
  Mannerism into reality. Caravaggio scorned the
  traditional idealization of religious subjects
  and took his models from the streets and painted
  them realistically. Thus his St Matthew has the
  physical features of a ploughman or common
  laborer.
• Caravaggio embarked on what was to be a lifelong
  quest - the search for light that, born from
  nowhere represents a revelation of divine origin.
  The light in his work not only portrays reality
  but also helps us understand the reality being
  depicted. Caravaggio may have used a lantern hung
  to one side in his shuttered studio while
  painting from his models. The result in his
  paintings is a harsh, raking light that strikes
  across the composition, illuminating parts of it
  while plunging the rest in deep shadow. This
  technique, became a hallmark of Baroque art.