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Biography of Caravaggio
Name: Caravaggio
Birth Date: September 8, 1573
Death Date: July 18, 1610
Place of Birth: Caravaggio, Lombardy, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist
Caravaggio
The Italian painter Caravaggio (1573-1610) depicted insolent boys and rough peasants in the guise of Roman gods and Christian saints. They are often portrayed as if emerging out of darkness, with part of their faces and bodies strongly illuminated.Michelangelo Merisi is called Caravaggio after the tiny town in Lombardy where he was born on Sept. 8, 1573. His father, Fermo Merisi, who was a master builder for the local lord, died in 1584, and the young boy was apprenticed to Simone Peterzano, a mediocre painter in Milan. Caravaggio's contract with Peterzano ran until April 1588. He probably stayed on in Milan for another year, studying the paintings in his native Lombardy. By about 1590 he was in Rome.During Caravaggio's first year in Rome he was desperately poor. For a brief period he worked for a certain Pandolfo Pucci, whom he called "Mr. Salad" since he said that was all Pucci ever gave him to …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…His style spread rapidly throughout Europe. Without Caravaggio it is not possible to understand countless artists who followed. Further Reading The fullest work on Caravaggio is Walter F. Friedlaender, Caravaggio Studies (1955). It is especially valuable for an understanding of Caravaggio in his own era and above all for the influence of St. Philip Neri on his art. A much shorter book, Roger P. Hinks, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1953), provides the most sensitive interpretation of the expressive content of his painting, especially the late works. The best color plates are in Roberto Longhi, Il Caravaggio (1952). More recently are Howard Hibbard, Caravaggio(1983), Desmond Seward, Caravaggio: A Passionate Life (1998), and Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life (1999).The Age of Caravaggi, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art: Electa/Rizzoli, 1985.Bissell, R. Ward, Orazio Gentileschi and the poetic tradition in Caravaggesque painting, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.Moir, Alfred, Caravaggio, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989.
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