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Word: seicento (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Future. Had he lived longer, says Hinks, Caravaggio "might even have diverted the whole course of seicento [17th century] painting." Even as it was, he inspired dozens of later masters. Rubens borrowed from his swirling, figure-full compositions; Vermeer took over and refined his trick of illuminating dim interiors with dramatic shafts of light; Rembrandt adapted to deeper use his habit of painting the faces of real people mysteriously veiled in shadow; Georges de La Tour appropriated his favored color scheme (red on black); Velasquez, the realest of realists, gained conviction from Caravaggio's absolute devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Long Shadow | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

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