biography
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Caravaggio
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originally Michelangelo Merisi
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pronunciation:
[karavajioh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1573–1610)
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| biography:
| Baroque painter, born in Caravaggio, N Italy, whence his nickname. He studied in Milan and Venice, and went to Rome, where Cardinal del Monte became his chief patron. His works include several altarpieces and religious paintings, using dramatic contrasts of light and shade, notably several paintings of St Matthew (1599–1603) and ‘Christ at Emmaus’ (c.1602–3, National Gallery, London). In 1606, his temper led him to kill a man, and he fled to Naples and Malta. |
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