Tuesday, May 13, 2025

 Caravaggio
(1571 - 1610)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio), known mononymously as Caravaggio, 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. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio

The Cardsharps
c. 1595
Oil on canvas
94.2 x 130.9 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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