Example sentences for: caravaggio

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  • 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.

  • The Madonna and saints of Annibale Carracci further paved the way for the Baroque, attracting the faithful with a sensuous image of ideal beauty, while Caravaggio made a more brutal, but no less effective, appeal with a proletarian Mary and barefoot Apostles.

  • And compare Caravaggio’s mastery of chiaroscuro (the play of light and dark) in the service of realism in his violent Abraham and Isaac (1590) with the more contemplative style of Rembrandt in the famous Old Rabbi (1658) and other portraits.

  • Caravaggio contributes a typically disturbing canvas, an ugly Sleeping Cupid with intimations of death (Hall 32, Education of Jupiter).

  • This collection of nine centuries of paintings includes important works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Raphael’s Transfiguration (his last great work), Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished St. Jerome, Bellini’s Pietà, and Caravaggio’s Descent from the Cross.


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