Example sentences for: caravaggio

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

  • The 17th-century Baroque Palaz­zo Rosso (number 18), taking its name from the red façade, displays works by Veronese, Titian, Caravaggio, Dürer, Rubens, and Van Dyck.

  • … An article weighs David Hockney's ingenious theory that Ingres and Caravaggio used refracting technology to trace the outlines of their subjects.

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

  • 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.


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