"Giovanni Antonio Galli (artist) Giovanni Antonio Galli, also called lo Spadarino (baptized January 16, 1585 – after June 1651) was an Italian Baroque artist who was a member of the Caravaggisti (followers of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio). He was born in Rome to a family originally from Florence. His activities are poorly documented but he is known to have been working in Rome in 1597. In 1616 he worked on the decoration of the Sala Regia in the Palazzo del Quirinale with Carlo Saraceni. He was long confused with his lesser-known brother Giacomo Galli, a gilder, picture framer and artist."
"Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (, , ; 28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily from the early 1590s to 1610. His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, darkening shadows and transfixing subjects in bright shafts of"
"sources for Caravaggio's life are: All have been reprinted in Howard Hibbard's ""Caravaggio"" and in the appendices to Catherine Puglisi's ""Caravaggio"". Biography Articles and essays Art works Music Video Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (, , ; 28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily from the early 1590s to 1610. His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. Caravaggio employed close physical observation with"
"Cerasi Chapel The Cerasi Chapel or Chapel of the Assumption () is one of the side chapels in the left transept of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. It contains significant paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, two of the most important masters of Baroque art, dating from 1600-1601. Before the present-day edifice another funerary chapel on the same spot was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was built by Pietro Foscari, the Cardinal of Venice. Johann Burchard notes in his diary that the cardinal died on 11 August 1485. ""His body was then"
"Paintings attributed to Caravaggio A number of paintings have been attributed from time to time to the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), but are no longer generally accepted as genuine. Immensely popular in his own lifetime, he fell into neglect almost immediately upon his death, with the result that now, four hundred years later, it's often extremely difficult to distinguish works by the master from copies or from original creations by his most gifted followers. The case in favour of recognising ""The Tooth Puller"" as was first advanced by the scholar Mina Gregori in 1992, and John Gash"
"be the Pope's theme with regard to France, Rome would be crowded with French pilgrims, and the chapel threatened to be boarded up. The clergy in charge of San Luigi became alarmed. The prefect in charge of the Fabricca, and of the money, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, suggested that his own personal painter, Michelangelo Merisi, known from his home town as Caravaggio, should be contracted to paint oils on canvas for the two side walls where Cesari would obviously never put his murals. The contracts with Caravaggio were signed on 23 July 1599. Despite agonisings over the composition of"
"Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (; ; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered by many the greatest artist of his lifetime, and by some the greatest artist of all time, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the"
"Boy Peeling Fruit (Caravaggio) Boy Peeling Fruit is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) painted circa 1592–1593. This is the earliest known work by Caravaggio, painted soon after his arrival in Rome from his native Milan in mid 1592. His movements in this period are not certain. According to his contemporary Giulio Mancini he stayed for a short time with Monsignor Pandulfo Pucci in the Palazzo Colonna, but disliked the way Pucci treated him and left after a few months. (Pucci fed his boarders exclusively on greens, and Caravaggio referred to him later as"
"religious canvasses"". Nevertheless, he is held in high regard in Sicily, and it is possible to speak of a 'School of Minniti' in the island's artistic history. Mario Minniti Mario Minniti (8 December 1577 – 22 November 1640) was an Italian artist active in Sicily after 1606. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he arrived in Rome in 1593, where he became the friend, collaborator and model of the key Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). His main fame today is his identification, or proposed identification, as a model in many of Caravaggio's early works, including ""Boy with a Basket of"
"the Flemish theologian, who demanded that paintings and sculptures in church contexts should depict their subjects clearly and powerfully, and with decorum, without the stylistic airs of Mannerism. Two of the leading figures in the emergence of Baroque painting in Italy were Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci Caravaggio (1571–1610), born and trained in Milan, stands as one of the most original and influential contributors to late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century European painting. Controversially, he not only painted figures, even those of classical or religious themes, in contemporary clothing, or as ordinary living men and women, but"
"d'Oro""). Marisa Merz Marisa Merz (born 1926) is an Italian artist and sculptor. In the 1960s, Merz was the only female protagonist associated with the radical Arte povera movement. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. She currently lives and works in Turin, Italy. Marisa Merz was born in Turin, Italy in 1926. Her father worked for Fiat Automobiles. In the 1950s she met the artist Mario Merz, who would later become her husband, who was studying in Turin. In 1960, they married and had a daughter, named Beatrice (Bea) Merz."
"Mario Minniti Mario Minniti (8 December 1577 – 22 November 1640) was an Italian artist active in Sicily after 1606. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he arrived in Rome in 1593, where he became the friend, collaborator and model of the key Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). His main fame today is his identification, or proposed identification, as a model in many of Caravaggio's early works, including ""Boy with a Basket of Fruit"", ""The Fortune Teller"", ""The Musicians"", ""Boy Bitten by a Lizard"" (probable), ""Bacchus"", ""The Lute Player"", ""The Calling of Saint Matthew"", and ""The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew""."
"kept portions of their extensive art Collection. He became ""Conservatore di Roma"" and in 1582 he began construction on the Villa Celimontana in Rome. Mattei was a close friend and patron of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and commissioned a number of works including the ""Supper at Emmaus"", ""John the Baptist (Youth with a Ram)"" and ""The Taking of Christ"" (for which Mattei and his brother paid 125 scudi). He also supported artists such as Domenico Fiasella. Mattei left his vast collection to his two sons but they both died before he did. In 1610 he restructured his will to allow"
"Like others of the Mattei family, Asdrubale Mattei was an enthusiastic patron of the arts. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (better known simply as ""Caravaggio"") is recorded as living at the palazzo in 1601. Palazzo Mattei The Palazzo Mattei di Giove is the most prominent among a group of Mattei houses that forms the ""insula Mattei"" in Rome, Italy, a block of buildings of many epochs To distinguish this section from the others it carries the name of a Mattei fief, Giove. The Mattei owned a number of other ""palazzi"" that carried the family name including ""Palazzo Mattei di Trastevere"" across"
"Marisa Merz Marisa Merz (born 1926) is an Italian artist and sculptor. In the 1960s, Merz was the only female protagonist associated with the radical Arte povera movement. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. She currently lives and works in Turin, Italy. Marisa Merz was born in Turin, Italy in 1926. Her father worked for Fiat Automobiles. In the 1950s she met the artist Mario Merz, who would later become her husband, who was studying in Turin. In 1960, they married and had a daughter, named Beatrice (Bea) Merz. Very"
"Tarcisio Merati Tarcisio Merati (27 May 1934 – 22 October 1995), also known as ""Coccolone"", was an Italian outsider artist. He spent much of his adult life, including most of his artistically productive years, in a psychiatric hospital. He produced a large quantity of drawings, texts and musical compositions. He is best known for his drawings of ""dream toys"". Merati was born in Bonate Sopra, a town near Bergamo, on 27 May 1934. He grew up an artisanal family(from the book Tarcisio Merati opere 1975-1991 print in the 1993). His mother was sacristan in her spare time. In the summer"
"The Taking of Christ (Caravaggio) The Taking of Christ () is a painting, of the arrest of Jesus, by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Originally commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. There are seven figures in the painting: from left to right they are John, Jesus, Judas, three soldiers (the one farthest to the right barely visible in the rear), and a man holding a lantern to the scene. They are standing, and only the upper three-quarters of their bodies are depicted. Judas has"
"were greatly valued. Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (Caravaggio) Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (or ""The Ecstasy of Saint Francis"") is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is held in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. The painting was the first of Caravaggio's religious canvasses, and is thought to date from 1595, when he had recently entered the household of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte. It was presumably painted at the behest of Del Monte, and is thought to be one of the first paintings done by the artist as ""Del Monte's painter"","
"even, by extension, a symbol of the Virgin Mary herself. We see Venus in both these roles in the two famous tempera paintings that Botticelli did in the 1480s for Cosimo's nephew, Pierfrancesco Medici, the ""Primavera"" and the ""Birth of Venus"". Meanwhile, Domenico Ghirlandaio, a meticulous and accurate draughtsman and one of the finest portrait painters of his age, executed two cycles of frescoes for Medici associates in two of Florence's larger churches, the Sassetti Chapel at Santa Trinita and the Tornabuoni Chapel at Santa Maria Novella. In these cycles of the ""Life of St Francis"" and the ""Life of"
"a patron of the arts and friend to Vasari, Cellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. Immortalized by Raphael and Cellini, he harbored Michelangelo when he fled from Florence to Rome. Michelangelo had such a high esteem for him (while he despised his rival Agostino Chigi) that he gave him as a gift the cartoon of Noah's Blessing, used in the vault of the Sistine Chapel (lost) as well as a design of a Venus (lost) colored then by Vasari. In Florence on Piazza del Limbo they had a palazzo with a large family coat of arms on the facade and detained the"
"is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Medusa (Caravaggio) Caravaggio painted two versions of Medusa, the first in 1596 and the other presumably in 1597. The first version (1596) is also known as ""Murtula"", after poet Gaspare Murtola (d. 1624), who wrote of it: ""Flee, for if your eyes are petrified in amazement, she will turn you to stone."" It measures 48 by 55 cm and is signed ""Michel A F"" (Latin: """"), ""Michel Angelo made [this]"", Michelangelo being Caravaggio's first name. This work is privately owned. The second version, shown here, is slightly bigger (60×55 cm) and is"
"of any artist living or dead, and was ""supreme in not one art alone but in all three"". In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called ""Il Divino"" (""the divine one""). His contemporaries often admired his ""terribilità""—his ability to instil a sense of awe. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance. Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany. For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers"
"have argued that either the Ishizuka version or that in the British Royal Collection could be the prototype. The version in the Royal Collection has been on display in the Cumberland Gallery of Hampton Court Palace since 2004. Boy Peeling Fruit (Caravaggio) Boy Peeling Fruit is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) painted circa 1592–1593. This is the earliest known work by Caravaggio, painted soon after his arrival in Rome from his native Milan in mid 1592. His movements in this period are not certain. According to his contemporary Giulio Mancini he stayed for"
"of Medici. He was nicknamed ""the Spanish One"" (Lo Spagnuolo) because of his habit of wearing tight clothes characteristic of Spanish fashion of the time. By age 12 years, he apprenticed with Angelo Michele Toni (1640–1708). From the age of 15–18 years, he worked under the Bolognese Domenico Maria Canuti. The Roman painter Carlo Maratti, on a visit to Bologna, is said to have invited Crespi to work in Rome, but Crespi declined. Maratti's friend, the Bolognese Carlo Cignani invited Crespi in 1681–82 to join an ""Accademia del Nudo"" for the purpose of studying drawing, and he remained in that"
"paint and its introduction to Italy had lasting effects on the art of painting. The establishment of the Medici Bank and the subsequent trade it generated brought unprecedented wealth to a single Italian city, Florence. Cosimo de' Medici set a new standard for patronage of the arts, not associated with the church or monarchy. The serendipitous presence within the region of Florence of certain individuals of artistic genius, most notably Giotto, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, formed an ethos that supported and encouraged many lesser artists to achieve work of extraordinary quality. A similar heritage"
"Forever Mery Forever Mery (), is a 1989 Italian drama film directed by Marco Risi and released in 1989. It stars Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Alessandra Di Sanzo, Francesco Benigno, Roberto Mariano, Maurizio Prollo, Filippo Genzardi, Alfredo Li Bassi, Salvatore Termini, Luigi Maria Burruano, Gianluca Favilla, Giovanni Alamia and Tony Sperandeo. ""Mery per sempre"" is set in ""Rosaspina"", a fictionary juvenile detention centre (the actual one is called ""Malaspina"") in Palermo, Sicily, during the 1980s. The protagonist, ""Marco Terzi"" (Michele Placido), is a teacher who has been transferred to Palermo from Milan. He obtains a temporary position as teacher inside"
"of the ""Last Judgement"" and the frescoes of the Capella Paolina. The Sistine Chapel ceiling was a work of unprecedented grandeur, both for its architectonic forms, to be imitated by many Baroque ceiling painters, and also for the wealth of its inventiveness in the study of figures. Vasari wrote: Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (; ; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of"
"towards his mother, hiding the face from the seer. Through Michelangelo’s personal writings, letters, and poetry that include recollections of his wet nurse it is known that Michelangelo was very emotionally engaged to the motherhood of Mary, relating the Virgin Mother to his own wet nurse. It is believed that although the work was commissioned, the ""Medici Madonna"" is largely tied to his own deep rooted personal issues. Medici Madonna The Medici Madonna is a marble sculpture carved by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti that measures about 88.98 inches (226 cm) in height. Dating from 1521–1534 the sculpture is a"
"and his suburban villa on the Tiber to indulge a growing passion for art. Known and endowed with a strong taste for art, he became a patron of the arts and friend to Vasari, Cellini, Raphael and Michelangelo.Immortalized by Raphael, he harbored Michelangelo when he fled from Florence to Rome. Michelangelo had such a high esteem for Bindo (while he despised his rival Agostino Chigi) that he gave him as a gift the cartoon of Noah's Blessing, used in the vault of the Sistine Chapel (lost) as well as a design of a Venus (lost) colored then by Vasari. It"
"of Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio is the only documented portrait of the painter by another artist. His work is exhibited in places such as Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art; Bowes Museum; Courtauld Institute of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome, Italy. Ottavio Leoni Ottavio Leoni (1578–1630) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the early-Baroque, active mainly in Rome. Ottavio Leoni, draughtsman and engraver was in his day the most fashionable portraitist in Rome. He has long since been almost entirely forgotten. Only The Most painstaking"
"such as Raphael and Titian and continue into the Mannerist period in works of artists such as Bronzino. With the growth of Humanism, artists turned to Classical themes, particularly to fulfill commissions for the decoration of the homes of wealthy patrons, the best known being Botticelli's ""Birth of Venus ""for the Medici. Increasingly, Classical themes were also seen as providing suitable allegorical material for civic commissions. Humanism also influenced the manner in which religious themes were depicted, notably on Michelangelo's ""Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel"". Other motifs were drawn from contemporary life, sometimes with allegorical meaning, some sometimes purely decorative."
"""The Inspiration of Saint Matthew"" of 1602 and, less clearly, ""Saint Jerome in Meditation"" of about 1605. Some critics have identified the boy-angel with the ingenuous victim of cheats on the left of ""Cardsharps"", while others have seen a similarity with the profile of the boy cheating him instead. Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Caravaggio) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1586 creation) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, like the Flight into Egypt, was a popular subject in"
"by Rustici and his comrades. Rustici's ""Mercury"" was commissioned by Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici in 1515 as a fountain figure for the courtyard of Palazzo Medici in Florence. The figure blew a jet of water that spun a whirligig with four vanes in the form of butterfly wings, according to Giorgio Vasari's description. According to James Draper, Rustici's figure drew inspiration from the mid-fifteenth century gilt-bronze fountain ""Winged Infant"" now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vasari praised the sculpture, now in the Boscawen collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. At the time of the siege of Florence, 1528, he"