Word: caravaggio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European painters found themselves losing the Renaissance reverence for Greco-Roman antiquity. Following the Italian artist Caravaggio, they stopped looking backward and returned, as artists have done repeatedly throughout history, to the direct observation of the visible world. What they saw was a growing middle-class life in an ever more secular society, and they depicted it with theatrical relish...
...pages. Braziller. $20. At that crucial intersection of art history, where the High Renaissance collapsed and reshaped itself into the Baroque, stands that accomplished but today little-valued style called "Mannerism." Painters like Mabuse, Cranach, Caravaggio, da Pontormo, and a hundred others across Europe were luxuriating in the mastery of technique. Their work was energetic, inventive, sensual, and edged with a fascination for the grotesque...
Euripides wrote at the end of an era, and he re-examined the work of his predecessors with a quizzical air, rearranging, complicating, and at the same time exposing the flaws in their methods. He resembles the painter Caravaggio who worked at the tail end of the Renaissance when there was little more to say about Madonnas or Crucifixions; he substituted peasants with dirty feet for the idealized figures of Raphael...
...MASTERS-Silberman, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. Another benefit, this time for the Rudolf Steiner School, shows some of the little-known but distinctive pieces owned by the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Md. Paintings by Old Masters Pellegrini and Veronese and works attributed to Caravaggio, Titian, Campagnola and Rembrandt are on loan. Through...
...vehemently shuns the dehumanized faces that spare many fashionable artists any need to confront the individual. "No orange blobs," says she. "I'll paint a face where there is one." On a recent swing around the Mediterranean, she discovered at first hand the proto-baroque painters, Ribera and Caravaggio, and has borrowed their theatrical use of localized light to heighten her figures' impression of stirring the air around them...