"says ""the quality of lighting, the silky effects of the sleeves and elegiac tone of the work are typical of Spadarino’s style."" Ponzi says that Galli's later works, such as the Palazzo Madama frescoes, show a stylistic decline resulting from his ambivalence toward new trends in Roman art. After 1943, Roberto Longhi attributed six additional works: 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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Alessandro Di Sanzo Alessandro Di Sanzo (now Alessandra; born 26 August 1969) is an Italian actor best known for his portrayal of the teenaged transvestite prostitute ""Mario Libassi"", nicknamed ""Mery"" in Marco Risi's dramatic film, ""Mery per sempre"" (""Forever Mary""), which was released in 1989 and where he made his acting debut. He received a ""European Film Award"" nomination in 1989 for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Di Sanzo played the same role in Risi's sequel, """"Ragazzi fuori"""" (""Boys on the Outside""), released the following year. As in ""Mery per sempre"", the film was set in Palermo, Sicily and"
"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""."
"stated, ""What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting."" Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the Marchese of Caravaggio, a town not far from the city of Bergamo. In 1576 the family moved to Caravaggio (Caravaggius) to escape a plague that ravaged Milan, and Caravaggio's father and grandfather both died there on the same day in 1577. It is assumed that the artist grew up in Caravaggio, but his family kept up connections with the Sforzas and with the powerful"
"it starred Sicilian actor Francesco Benigno. Other films in which Di Sanzo is featured include, ""Errore Fatale"" (1991), and ""La Tenda Nera"" (1995). Di Sanzo was born at Gattico, Province of Novara, Piedmont. Alessandro Di Sanzo Alessandro Di Sanzo (now Alessandra; born 26 August 1969) is an Italian actor best known for his portrayal of the teenaged transvestite prostitute ""Mario Libassi"", nicknamed ""Mery"" in Marco Risi's dramatic film, ""Mery per sempre"" (""Forever Mary""), which was released in 1989 and where he made his acting debut. He received a ""European Film Award"" nomination in 1989 for Best Supporting Actor for his"
"The Cardsharps The Cardsharps (painted around 1594) is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The original is generally agreed to be the work acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum in 1987, although Caravaggio may have painted more than one version. The work represents an important milestone for Caravaggio. He painted it when he was attempting an independent career after leaving the workshop of the Cavaliere Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino, for whom he had been painting ""flowers and fruit"", finishing the details for the Cavaliere's mass-produced (and massive) output. Caravaggio left Arpino's workshop in January 1594 and"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"""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"
"Master of the Cappella Medici Polyptych The Master of the Cappella Medici Polyptych (sometimes called the Master of Terenzano) was an Italian painter active between about 1315 and 1335. Identified in the twentieth century by Bernard Berenson as the Master of Terenzano, the Master was renamed for a polyptych from his hand, dating to the 1320s, that originally stood in the Medici Chapel of the church of Santa Croce in Florence. The panels, half-length depictions of saints, have since been separated, and are used as pinnacles for the altarpiece on the high altar of the same church. It would appear"
"Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy (1606) is a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). Caravaggio's ""Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy"" (or variations on that name) exists in at least eighteen copies, of which this version, in a private collection in Rome, illustrated in John Gash's ""Caravaggio"" (revised 2003 edition only), has been claimed as the most likely original. The painting was done in the few months following Caravaggio's flight from Rome after the death of Ranuccio Tommassoni on 29 May 1606, while he was in hiding on the estates of his protectors, the powerful"
"Annunciation (Caravaggio) The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, finished around 1608. It housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy. The painting has been considerably damaged and retouched, and what remains of Caravaggio's brushwork is the angel, who bears a resemblance to the figure in ""John the Baptist at the Fountain"". The illusionistic treatment of the angel, floating on his cloud and seeming to protrude outside the picture plane, is more Baroque than is normal for Caravaggio, but the contrast between the energetic pose of the heavenly messenger and the receptive Mary"
"Michelangelo Maestri Michelangelo Maestri was an Italian artist of the 18th century who died in Rome in 1812. His finest compositions are based on motifs from antique frescos discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum and from designs by Raphael or his pupil Giulio Romano. His work became very popular and often purchased by European travelers during their Grand Tour. Some of his most famous gouaches portray putti leading animals on a chariot and were inspired by ceiling frescoes in the salone of Villa Lante, on the Janiculum Hill in Rome. Francesco Piranesi and Tommaso Piroli published these frescoes in a series"
"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"
"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"","
"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"
"Bode Prize, Kassel; and the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture (2003). He was the subject of an atmospheric film, ""Mario Merz"" (2002), shot during the summer of 2002 in San Gimignano by the British artist Tacita Dean. The Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy, regularly displays both the works of its namesake and sponsors exhibitions by living artists. Mario Merz Mario Merz (1 January 1925 – 9 November 2003) was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Born in Milano, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the ""Giustizia e Libertà"" antifascist group."
"with the less well-lit parts of the composition often containing important parts of it. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of chiaroscuro. This came to be known as Tenebrism, the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value. Georges de La Tour was a"
"Giuseppe Marchesi Giuseppe Marchesi (1699–1771) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was also known as ""il Sansone"" for his herculean build. He was first a pupil of the painter Aureliano Milani and then of Marcantonio Franceschini. Giuseppe Marchesi was born in Bologna on 19 July 1699. His first teacher was the bolognese painter Aureliano Milani until 1719, when Milani left Bologna for Rome. So, Marchesi entered the workshop of Marcantonio Franceschini, at the time the best exponent of the classicist style in Bologna, and maybe in Europe, at least until the affirmation of"
"Michele Marieschi Michele Marieschi or Michele Giovanni Marieschi, also Michiel (1 December 1710 – 18 January 1744), also known as ""Michiel"", was an Italian painter and engraver. He is mainly known for his landscapes and cityscapes (""vedute""), or views, mostly of Venice. He also created architectural paintings, which reveal his interest in stage design. Marieschi was born in Venice in 1710 as the son of a woodcarver. According to his biography in Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi's ""Abecedario Pittorico"", published in Venice in 1753, he spent some time in Germany, where he may have worked as a stage designer. He returned to"
"later, Domencio moved to Florence, but he left the city for the Marche region twelve years later. Domenico Rosselli Domenico Rosselli ( 1439 – 1498) was an Italian sculptor. Details of Rosselli's life are limited, but he seems to have trained in Florence. He is best known for his work on many of the friezes, sculpted doorways and decorative fireplaces in the Ducal Palace in Urbino, most particularly the angel fireplace, which depicts the Camino angels, in the Sala degli Angeli. Some authors have also identified him as the Master of the Marble Madonnas, although the assertion is by no"
"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."
"Permanent Press, was published. Marco Vassi Marco Ferdinand William Vasquez-d'Acugno Vassi (November 6, 1937 in New York City – January 14, 1989 in New York City) was an American experimental thinker and author, most noted for his erotica. He wrote fiction and nonfiction, publishing hundreds of short stories, articles, more than a dozen novels, and at least one play, ""The Re-Enactment,"" (under the name of Fred Vassi) at the Caffe Cino in January 1966. Many of his works appeared as ""Anonymous"" in their first printings. He is most often compared to Henry Miller, has been called the greatest erotic writer"
"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"
"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"
"Raffaello Schiaminossi Raffaello Schiaminossi (1572–1622) was an Italian engraver and painter of the late- Mannerist and early-Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany. He was born and died in Sansepolcro, and engraved works after Cornelis Cort, Federico Barocci, and Ventura Salimbeni. The latter provided some of the designs for his voluminous collection of engravings titled Quindecim Mysteria Rosarii Beatæ Mariæ Virginis (Mysteries of the Rosary). A painting by an anonymous Italian artist that sold at auction in 2016 was found to have a support consisting of a partially cut Schiaminossi copperplate, the frontispiece to his set of etchings 'The Twelve Caesars'"
"Mario Merz attempted to make the experience of art more immediately real while also more closely connecting the individual to nature. The leading sculptors from 1930-40 to 2000 included Marino Marini, Emilio Greco, Pino Pascali, Mario Ceroli, Giovanni e Arnaldo Pomodoro, Umberto Mastroianni, Ettore Colla. The leading painters from 1930-40 to 2000 included Alberto Savinio, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Alberto Magnelli, Felice Casorati, Roberto Melli, Corrado Cagli, Gianfilippo Usellini, Pietro Annigoni, Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Giovanni Capogrossi, Enrico Accatino, Antonio Donghi, Oreste Carpi, Fausto Pirandello, Afro Basaldella, Alberto Burri, Mimmo Rotella, Franco Nonnis, Domenico Gnoli, Valerio Adami, Piero Manzoni,"