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Also Known As Michelangelo Merisi
Born September 29, 1571? • Milan • Italy
Died July 18, 1610 • Italy
Notable Works “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” • “Death of the Virgin” • “The Beheading of St. John the Baptist” • “The Burial of St. Lucy” • “The Calling of St. Matthew” • “The Conversion of St. Paul” • “The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew” • “The Musicians” • “The Seven Acts of Mercy” • “Sick Bacchus”
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • realism • tenebrism

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Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
Caravaggio: The Cardsharps
Painting by Caravaggio showing a young Bacchus draped in white cloth, wearing a crown of grape leaves, holding a glass of red wine, with fruit and wine on the table.
Painting The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio shows a group of men at a table, with a dramatic beam of light illuminating faces as Christ points toward Matthew in a darkened room.
Caravaggio: The Entombment of Christ
Caravaggio: The Death of the Virgin
The Calling of St. Matthew, oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1597–98; in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.
Caravaggio: Deposition of Christ
The unique drama of Caravaggio's The Entombment of Christ
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Last Communion of Saint Jerome, oil painting by Domenichino, 1614; in the Vatican Museum.
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Pietro da Cortona: St. Martina
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“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
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