Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio (1571 – 1610), is a painter who introduced a “powerfully frank realism and dramatic, theatrical lighting and gesture to Italian Baroque art” (Stokstad, and Cothren, Art History, p. 720). The young artist became interested in still-life painting when he arrived in Rome from Milan. There he found a studio work as a specialist painter of fruit and vegetables. However, once he started working on his own, he began to include half-length figures with still life. In Rome, Caravaggio’s natural tendency for violence caused him a lot of difficulties. But, despite the repeated problems with the Continue reading...
