How Caravaggio Painted His Life

Stone stated that Caravaggio left his lucrative career as an altarpiece painter to provide praiseworthy service to the Order of St. John, in hopes of becoming an honorary knight in the

Museum Collection 6 Baroque Age During the Baroque Ages a man by the name of Caravaggio was a very prominante artist,

Caravaggio’s, however, was darker and more dramatic. Caravaggio started an intense style called tenebrism. Tenebrism is a more prominent form of chiaroscuro, where there are vehement contrasts between light and dark. Fred Kleiner best describes Caravaggio’s style, “In his art, Caravaggio injected naturalism into both religion and the classics, reducing them to human dramas played out in the harsh and dingy settings of his time and place” (Kleiner, 681). Caravaggio painted during the Italian Baroque in the 1600’s. Italian Baroque artists like Caravaggio embraced theatricality and extravagant ornamentation, while Renaissance artists focused more on precise classical models. Now Caravaggio wasn’t exactly an upstanding member of society, most of what the art world knows about him is through his police reports. Caravaggio’s Entombment was created in 1603 and, like Giotto’s Lamentation, depicts the death of Jesus. While they both depict the same religious scene and use styles that are new for their time, Caravaggio’s painting has some drastic differences from Giotto’s. Caravaggio’s painting is oil painted on canvas, which gives Caravaggio the opportunity to be more detailed in his painting than Giotto can with fresco. Caravaggio creates these intense dramatic scenes of diagonals and intense movement. Unlike Giotto, Caravaggio uses linear perspective to direct his viewer’s attention to the body of Jesus. Caravaggio does this by using a diagonal cascade of mourners descending towards Jesus’ body. Inclusively, Caravaggio started a darker, more dramatic movement that gave naturalism a new realistic element.

An artist has the ability to connect with one’s audience through their art and the obscure connotations that appear beneath it, not just the image that lies on the surface. Artists Jan Van Eyck and Caravaggio communicate these implications through their work, utilising symbols and motifs. Van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) explores the social status of the time, along with the issue of marriage between two unequals. Caravaggio’s The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (1608) reflects the world of his time’s attitude on violence and the insensitivity of a positive resolution. Although, these two paintings showcase incredible technique and attention to detail, the context is what is integral to the audience’s understanding of their world

Caravaggio lived through a dark period of time. His behavior, however became more and more violent as he began to challenge the beauty of art. He becomes more and more of a murder and uses more dramatic composition heightening his view of the situation.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio better known as simply Caravaggio was an Italian Baroque master painter born in Italy around 1571. After he apprenticed with a painter in Milan, he moved to Rome, where he lived for most of his life. His work influenced painters around Europe. He’s most known for his gruesome subjects and use of Tenebrism, which was a technique that used heavy shadow to

Caravaggio I am writing about Caravaggio a famous artist in Rome. Caravaggio is known for his tenebrism technique that he used in his art. Caravaggio was known for getting in trouble by fighting a lot. He killed some on once and then not long after he fled Rome. Caravaggio has also painted a chapel.

The first thing I’d like to look at in Caravaggio’s paintings is his choices of color and lighting. In his works he always used a lot of red for example in Salome with the Head of John the Baptist and in The Raising of Lazarus. Also, when taking into notice the placement and meaning of the color, we can see that there is a presence of an affect from the church. Red usually –in this time period- was seen as the devil’s color so in Caravaggio’s work I noticed that either the actors or accessories to the devil’s work are draped in red or if there is an act occurring there is red in the background like in Judith Beheading

Perugino was considered one of the best when we talk about the Early The Baroque style, used by Caravaggio, was the absolute opposite of any Renaissance painter that had lived before him and because of this; it was probably the reason why he became the most radical artist of his time. He deserted the rules that had guided a century of artists before him and because of his theatrical break in style from the Italian Renaissance; he carefully brings a completely distinct treatment of narrative. Caravaggio's action of form in his Conversion of St. Paul is extraordinarily different from Perugino's work of art. One of the choices he decided to use was instead of outlining Paul and his horse with lines, Caravaggio abandons this unique style and adds movement by using a painterly style in which he uses paint to create an image and not rigid outlines. He uses color and value to produce a unique form, causing a sense of movement in the figures. They are not locked in time like Perugino's figures and express the exact opposite message of classical, passive figures. These are strong, vibrant, and emotional figures. Perhaps the emotional aspect of the figures is created by Caravaggio's introduction of dramatic light and dark effects, termed tenebrism. This technique was a great breakthrough in art, which added great emotional effects and mystery to the art. Caravaggio doesn't light Paul with a clear even light like Perugino

Biography of Michelangelo The second of five brothers, Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. The same day, his father noted down: "Today March 6, 1475, a child of the male sex has been born to me and I have named him Michelangelo. He was born on Monday between 4 and 5 in the morning, at Caprese, where I am the Podestà." Although born in the small village of Caprese, Michelangelo always considered himself a "son of Florence," as did his father, "a Citizen of Florence."

Arguably no other artist has captured people's imaginations like Vincent van Gogh. “Vincent van Gogh’s passion, contemplation of life, nature, art, his intensity, his mental illnesses, and his suicide at thirty-seven have all contributed to the powerful myths and love for the estranged artist” (Callow). It is hard to believe that such a beloved painter of today’s society lived such, a short and tortured life. At a young age things, did not start out too well for Vincent. He did not have a very good childhood, and went through many failures in life before he finally found he had an enjoyment for painting. He did not find out that he had a love for painting until he was about twenty-seven years old. Even when he discovered that his calling

However, Michelangelo has totally changed my opinion. It is absolutely amazing to me the depths of his talents. One could be extremely impressed with just one of his talents. His sculptures are breathtaking and awesome. Then to see the ceiling that he worked on for four years and to know that he did not consider himself a painter. To say that it is unbelievable is truly an understatement. His architecture was not as much of a surprise to me as I see some of the same talents in it as in his sculpture. Then there is his poetry. It is simply remarkable to see his creative talents in this medium as well. I love all of these things about this artist and am in awe of his determination and

Vasari not only looked at the beauty of the art, but the time, effort and the story that went along with the work. Vasari mentions a painting by Leonardo that was done to the Hall of the pope in Santa Maria, Novella. Vasari takes up a whole page describing to the reader the detail of the painting. His view of the panting goes into depth as he describes horses fighting, the crying out of soldiers and helpless arms. Vasari’s view is as if the painting can speak providing a narrative of the battle that Leonardo has created. Another instance of this is when Vasai mentions Leonardo painting the Mona Lisa. Vasari states that the painting is like real skin and that if one looked closely you could see a pulse. Vasari also mentions that to do the painting, Mona Lisa would have to sit still for long periods which caused her smile to fade so Leonardo would bring in entertainers to bring a smile upon her face again. This shows that Vasari appreciates the effort and time that the artist takes to the artwork and not just the end

Francesco used a style that I really enjoy, it is called pittura di tocco and it is a style known for its small dotting in the art work and it's small but clean brush strokes. It's a style that not many artist can lock down it is very very

A. “Comparison of the Arts” by Leonardo da Vinci compares several different art forms, mainly sculpture and writing, in a unique and intriguing way. It was very interesting that Da Vinci chose painting as his most prized art. In his time, he was an affluent producer of many types of