Portrait of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Giclée Fine Art Prints 3 of 4

1571-1610

Italian Baroque Painter

With his innovative style, Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a defining influence on the most prominent European artists of the 17th century and on the overall development of painting.

After training in Milan, he went to Rome at about the age of twenty. Then lacking in means, he led a carefree life and painted for a living, soon attracting the attention of several prelates. In 1598 he received a substantial commission, to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. Caravaggio re-created three episodes from the Life of St Matthew, whose dramatic and gritty realism gave each scene new emotional power. The artist thus demonstrates the power of his genius and sharply confronts the mannerisms of the age.

After 1600, he produced only works with religious subjects. His style is monumental, characterized by vivid contrasts between light and shadow (Assumption of the Virgin). The models of his Madonnas and saints are those who usually keep him company in the cafés and pubs or he meets in the streets, the slums whose daily life he shares. He leads a scandalous life and often clashes with the justice authorities. In 1606 he was accused of murder and fled to Naples, Malta, then to Sicily. His painting becomes more austere and restrained - a sign of resignation; the subjects are more serene, radiating serenity (Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds). He goes to Naples again when he learns that the Pope is ready to pardon him. Just then he finds his death on the beach of Porto Ecole. He died when he was only thirty-nine years old.

Caravaggio's work made a revolution, opposing academic classicism and the illusionistic tendency of the Baroque. Through their immediate, brutal reading of reality, his paintings inexorably rivet the eye and suggest the emotions that fill them.

78 Caravaggio Artworks

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Saint Francis in Meditation, c.1605 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$95.77
SKU: 10954-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:128.2 x 94.4 cm
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, 1609 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$55.60
SKU: 10982-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:268 x 197 cm
Oratory of San Lorenzo, Palermo, Italy

A Boy Peeling Fruit, c.1592/93 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$50.70
SKU: 10964-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:61 x 48.3 cm
The Royal Collection, London, United Kingdom

Head of Medusa, c.1596/98 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$76.84
SKU: 10942-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:55 x 55 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

The Flagellation of Christ, c.1605/07 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$50.70
SKU: 10940-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:134 x 175.5 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

Boy Bitten by a Lizard, c.1595/00 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$87.42
SKU: 10943-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:65.8 x 52.3 cm
Private Collection

Sleeping Cupid, 1608 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$86.57
SKU: 10945-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:72 x 105 cm
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

Portrait of Cardinal Cesare Baronio, c.1602/03 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$61.47
SKU: 10968-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:60 x 48 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Flagellation, 1607 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$94.68
SKU: 10960-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:286 x 213 cm
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte , Napoli, Italy

The Decapitation of St. John the Baptist, 1608 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$51.69
SKU: 10959-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:361 x 520 cm
Co-Cathedral of St. John, Valleta, Malta

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, c.1600/01 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$58.81
SKU: 2784-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:230 x 175 cm
Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy

Penitent Magdalen, c.1598 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$104.78
SKU: 2773-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:122.5 x 98.5 cm
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy

The Tooth Extraction, c.1610 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$51.13
SKU: 10499-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:139.5 x 194.5 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, 1608 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$63.29
SKU: 10952-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:118.5 x 95.5 cm
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

Boy Bitten by a Lizard, c.1595/00 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$82.98
SKU: 2772-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:66 x 49.5 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Saint John the Baptist, 1602 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$55.88
SKU: 2789-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:129 x 95 cm
Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy

The Calling of Sts Peter and Andrew, c.1602/04 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$50.70
SKU: 10963-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:140 x 176 cm
The Royal Collection, London, United Kingdom

Sleeping Cupid, c.1595/96 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$50.70
SKU: 10955-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:65.4 x 105.4 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA

Lute Player, c.1600 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$99.55
SKU: 10966-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:100 x 126.5 cm
Private Collection

Madonna del Rosario, 1607 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$52.53
SKU: 10957-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:364.5 x 249.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Saintt John the Baptist, c.1605/06 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
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$92.52
SKU: 10973-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:97 x 131.5 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica a Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy

The Annunciation, c.1608/10 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$53.79
SKU: 10975-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:285 x 205 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France

Judith Beheading Holofernes, c.1599/00 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$57.28
SKU: 2782-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:145 x 195 cm
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

Madonna and Child with a Serpent, 1605 by Caravaggio | Canvas Print
Giclée Canvas Print
$56.02
SKU: 10949-CMM
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Original Size:292 x 211 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

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