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Caravaggio - Putting Christ in the Tomb

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Caravaggio - Putting Christ in the Tomb
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Artist: Caravaggio - Title: Putting Christ in the Tomb - Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 20 inches x 16.5 inches - Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio ( September 1571 - July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. - Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, darkening shadows and transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggles, torture, and death. He worked rapidly, with live models, preferring to forgo drawings and work directly onto the canvas. His influence on the new Baroque style that emerged from Mannerism was profound. It can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Rembrandt, and artists in the following generation heavily under his influence were called the "Caravaggisti" (or "Caravagesques"), as well as tenebrists or tenebrosi ("shadowists").