Caravaggio, was an Italian painter who worked in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His painting combines a realistic observation of the human figure, both physically and emotionally, with a dramatic use of light, which exerted a decisive influence on the development of Baroque painting.<\/p>","texto_biografico":"
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the son of Fermo Merisi, who was in the service of Francesco Sforza Colonna. He trained with Simone Peterzano in Milan, where he is documented in 1584. In 1592, he proceeded to sell his possessions in order to move to Rome, where he enjoyed the support of Costanza Colonna\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
There he frequented the studios of Lorenzo Carli, the Cavaliere d\u2019Arpino and Antiveduto Gramatica. The turning point in Caravaggio\u2019s life and work came when he met his first patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, in whose residence \u2013 the Palazzo Madama \u2013 he lived from 1597 to 1601. He painted a number of works for Del Monte, including the\u00a0Head of Medusa\u00a0in the Galleria degli Uffizi, and the\u00a0Fortune Teller\u00a0in the Pinacoteca Capitolina. Caravaggio\u2019s first important commission was for the canvases on the life of Saint Matthew for the Contarelli chapel in San Luigi dei Francesci (1599\u20121600), followed by those for Santa Maria del Popolo (1600\u20121601).<\/p>\n
The pronounced realism of these series and the artist\u2019s use of intense chiaroscuro made a profound impression on the Roman art world due to their highly innovative nature and brought him fame and popularity. During those years he produced the\u00a0Burial of Christ\u00a0in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, the\u00a0Madonna of Loreto\u00a0in the church of Sant\u2019 Agostino, theMadonna dei Palafrenieri\u00a0in the Galleria Borghese, and the\u00a0Death of the Virgin\u00a0in the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre. Caravaggio worked for some of the most important patrons of the day, including Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, Cardinal Scipione Borghese and the banker Ottavio Costa. His new manner of bringing the sacred closer to reality was one of the reasons for his popularity but he also triggered controversy by using beggars and prostitutes as models for his paintings.<\/p>\n
Caravaggio was an ambitious man with a fiery temperament who frequented taverns and his excesses caused his serious problems with justice as he was often involved in brawls. In 1606 he killed his rival, the painter Ranuccio Tomassoni, in a duel. This forced him to flee immediately to the south of the country, abandoning Rome for Naples, where his work made a particularly strong impact. \u00a0<\/p>\n
From this moment onwards, Merisi was constantly fleeing. In 1607, he is documented as being in Malta, under the protection of Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta, where he painted the\u00a0Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, his only signed work. He then moved to Sicily, where he lived from 1608 and 1609 and painted the\u00a0Resurrection of Lazarus\u00a0in Messina and the\u00a0Burial of Saint Lucy\u00a0in Syracuse. In late 1609 he returned to Naples, where he set sail for Rome and died at Porto Ercole on 18 July 1610 during the journey.<\/p>\n
Caravaggio, who had no pupils as such, had numerous followers who disseminated his style throughout Italy and the rest of Europe. Echoes of his art can be detected in the work of Rembrandt and Vel\u00e1zquez. \u00a0<\/p>","texto_descripcion_arte":"","imagen_carrusel_autor":"","destacar_autor":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.santacole.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autor\/342694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.santacole.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.santacole.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/autor"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.santacole.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autor\/342694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.santacole.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menu-items\/164926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.santacole.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}