His real name was Michelangelo Merisi. But the world knows him as Caravaggio, after the name of the Lombard town where he was born in 1571. He is one of Europe's great painters, ranked among Titian, Goya, Degas and Picasso, and certainly one of the most influential, both in his own time and in our own. But Caravaggio was also one of the art world's bad boys. Quick of temper, he loved nothing better than roaming the night streets of Rome or Naples armed with a sword to pick fights. His best friends were prostitutes and men like himself, violent and sexually very active. His last years - he died in 1610, just short of his 39th birthday - were spent running from a death penalty earned in Rome when he killed a man in a duel. A great painter and a vigorous, even scandalous life provide excel...
More than 400 years after his death, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is more popular than ever. Long lines form outside exhibitions of his art, and by one scholar's count, he's been written about more in recent decades than his namesake, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Caravaggio's celebrity status is due not only to the graphic, cinematic quality of his paintings but also his wild personality. The "bad boy" of Italian painting, Caravaggio was volatile, often violent, almost certainly bisexual and constantly in trouble with the law, forced to flee Rome in 1606 after killing a man in a duel.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Works by Italian artist Caravaggio will be displayed along with pieces by those influenced by him in an exhibit opening in Fort Worth. Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome" opens Sunday at the Kimbell Art Museum. The exhibit runs through Jan. 8. It features 10 works by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and more than 40 works from artists including Jusepe de Ribera, Georges de La Tour and Peter Paul Rubens.
Much like the novels many people read while relaxing at the beach, Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections, opening at the Museum of Fine Arts on Friday, June 8, is pure entertainment. The exhibit features 17th- and 18th-century still lifes that once decorated the Medici family's country villas. The artists who created these images -- of extraordinary vegetables, luscious flowers, fish and fowl ready for the pot, an occasional live bird, and the odd snake or hound -- intended to seduce and amuse. Two Citrons by Filippo Napoletano is the oldest painting in Natura Morta. An oil on canvas created in 1618, its stark composition is deeply influenced by artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). Two Citrons echoes Caravaggio's innovative style -- all superfluou...
... and Literature on the Paintings of Michelangelo Merisi" (Pittsburgh, A. Sutherland Harris) . KUO, ...
... in Central Italian Renaissance Art: Michelangelo's David, Artistic Theory, and Representations of t... Drama on the Paintings of Michelangelo Merisi" (Pittsburgh, A. Sutherland Harris) . KARAFEL, LOR...
McClatchy Newspapers ROME -- Experts are examining whether a painting belonging to the Catholic priestly order of the Jesuits in Rome is the work of Italian master Caravaggio, according to the Vatican newspaper. The L'Osservatore Romano article appeared as several Rome churches and museums housing works by Caravaggio recently extended their hours to mark the 400th anniversary of his death.
...Caravaggio, whose real name was Michelangelo Merisi, was born in 1571 in Milan, but much of his...
PORTO ERCOLE, Italy - Mystery swirls around the death of the great Italian painter Caravaggio, who died at age 39 after a dissipated life of street brawls, brothels, and boozing. Now, as art lovers mark the 400th anniversary of the artist's death in this beach town on the Tuscan coast, researchers are digging for answers.
... as the likely final resting place of Michelangelo Merisi - better known as Caravaggio. Moretti and a...
Consider the following sentences, in which extraneous material disrupts flow: * "Indeed, so little is known about the artist's early years and education (in 1584, at age 13, he was taken on as an apprentice in the Milan studio of Simone Peterzano, a former pupil of Titian's and a painter of religious scenes) that the Caravaggio pilgrim might more profitably choose to pick up the painter's trail in Rome, where the novice artist arrived in 1592 at age 21, determined to make his mark in a city experiencing a period of urban renewal and revitalization." * "While working for Cesari, Caravaggio became involved in the rough-and-tumble street life of the now-stylish Campo Marzio, which - with its elegant and handsome government buildings patrolled by camhinicri who always seem a few years too y...
... is ostensibly 16th-century artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, but the writer seems to ask:...
Today is Monday, July 18, the 199th day of 2011. There are 166 days left in the year. On this date
... In 1610, Italian baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio died in Porto Ercole at age 3...
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