Example sentences for: caravaggio

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  • The stark realism you’ll see in Caravaggio’s Flagellation and the Seven Works of Mercy launched a whole Neapolitan school of “Caravaggeschi” displayed here.

  • Raphael’s stately Betrothal of the Virgin contrasts with the earthier inspiration of Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus.

  • Caravaggio admirers will find some of his greatest masterpieces right in the neighborhood: the St. Matthew trilogy in the fine Baroque church of San Luigi dei Francesi, and the moving Madonna of the Pilgrims in the Renaissance church of Sant’Agostino.

  • There is an intriguing ambiguity to the half-naked peasant youth posing as a Bacchus for Caravaggio (1589), but nothing complicated about the robust sexiness of the Rubens Bacchanale.

  • The top-floor Capitoline Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca Capitolina) has important Venetian works by Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Lotto, and Veronese, as well as a fine Rubens Romulus and Remus and Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist.


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