Example sentences for: caravaggio

How can you use “caravaggio” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Caravaggio’s only still life, Bowl of Fruit, is here.

  • 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.

  • Its popular attraction is the cave called Orecchio di Dionisio (Dionysius’ Ear), dubbed as such by Caravaggio in 1608 because of its acoustics.

  • On the north side, the church of Santa Maria del Popolo is important for Raphael’s Chigi Chapel, exquisite frescoes by Pincuricchio, and, above all, two profoundly disturbing early 17th-century paintings by Caravaggio, the Conversion of St. Paul and Crucifixion of St. Peter, in the Cerasi Chapel left of the choir.

  • 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.


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