Caravaggio was an influential Italian painter in the early 17th century. He pioneered a realistic style using dramatic lighting and everyday subjects. He had a turbulent life that included fights and murder. He went into hiding after killing a man in Rome in 1606. Many painters were strongly influenced by his style, known as Caravaggism or Caravaggisti. Some of his most prominent followers included Artemisia Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera, and Rembrandt, who incorporated his use of chiaroscuro and everyday subjects into their own works. Caravaggio's dramatic realism had a major and long-lasting impact on European painting.

1. in Details
First created 17 Apr 2022. Version 1.0 - 21 Apr 2022. Daperro. London.
Caravaggio’s
Followers
Martyrdom of St Bartholomew (Detail). 1634. Jusepe de Ribera

2. Orphaned, at the age of 11, Caravaggio
went to Milan and began apprenticeship.
In 1597, Caravaggio was awarded the first
commission in Rome. A frequent fighter, He
served a short prison sentence in 1603. In
1606, when he killed a man, he fled Rome. In
July 1608, he attacked a senior knights in
Malta. Caravaggio was arrested and jailed
but managed to escape just one month later.
To avoid punishment for murder,
Caravaggio's only salvation could come from
the pope, for pardon. In 1610, Caravaggio
began to make his way back to Rome.
Sailing from Naples, he was arrested in Palo
and eventually arrived at Port'Ercole, where
he died just a few days later, on July 18,
1610.
Brief Life History on Caravaggio

3. His Famous Followers
It is almost impossible to overestimate the
influence of Caravaggio. He was widely
admired and an extremely influential painter of
17th century.
Among his followers were Orazio Gentileschi
(Italian), Artemisia Gentileschi (daughter),
Velazquez (Spanish), Murillo (Spanish), La Tour
(French), Rubens (Belgium) and Rembrandt
(Dutch).
La Tour – Card Players
Rembrandt – Anatomy Lecture
Valazquez – Egg Fryer
Is a film like Pretty Baby, in which Brooke Shields plays a 12 year old prostitute directed by Louis Malle, part of the Caravaggio tradition?

4. Caravaggisti - His followers

5. Dirck van Baburen
On ‘Filial Piety’ Valerius
recounted how Pero
visited her father, Cimon,
in prisoned, where he
was condemned to die by
starvation. Finding him
weakened and near
death, she nourished him
by suckling him at her
beast.

6. Giovanni Baglione

7. Orazio Borgianni

8. Valentin de Boulogne

9. Hendrick Ter Bugghen
(Detail). National Gallery London.

10. Francesco Buoneri

11. Giovanni Battista Caracciolo

12. Pietro da Cottona

13. Adam de Coster
A young Woman Holding a Distaff Before a Lit Candle (Detail). C1620-
35. Oil on Canvas. 134x95 cm. Private.
Adam de Coster (c1586-1643) was a
prominent Flemish Caravaggisti. He is mainly
known for his genre scenes with strong
chiaroscuro effects.

14. Giovanni Antonio Galli

15. Orazio Gentileschi

16. Artemisia Gentileschi
Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639 on the
previous slide) was the father of
Artemisia Gentileschi. He worked in
Paris in c1623/24. He arrived in London
in 1626. He worked as the court painter
for Charles I. He remained in England
until his death. Together with Honthorst,
they were the practitioners of
Caravaggism in England.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1589-1639) was
the daughter of Orazio Gentileschi. She
worked in similar style as her father. She
was a rare bleed of successful of female
painter in the 16th century. She also
came to England and worked with her
father Orazio. She was also a
Caravaggesque and painter of many
well-known women in history.

17. Antiveduto Gramatica

18. Giovanni Francisco Guerrieri
In 1606 he went to Rome and studied
under Orazio Gentileschi and other
notable artists. Returned home to
Fossombrone in 1614 and completed two
versions of the work Miracles of St
Nicholas of Tolentino.

19. Gerrit van Honthorst

20. Gerrit van Honthorst

21. George de la Tour

22. George de la Tour

23. Bartolomeo Manfredi

24. Mattia Preti

25. Guido Reni

26. Jusepe de Ribera

27. Jusepe de Ribera
Ribera was born near
Valencia. The age of 19
he travelled to northern
Italy and settled down in
Rome in 1612.
He was influenced by
Raphael, Carracci, Guido
Reni and above all
Caravaggio.

28. Nicolas Regnier

29. Nicolas Regnier

30. Peter Paul Rubens
The painting was painted in the
style of Caravaggio. Rubens
stayed in Italy from 1600 to 1608.
The tight arrangement of the half
–length figures and the stark
realism also characterise this
work, which is one of the earliest
Caravaggesque paintings in the
Netherland.
Rubens depicted every wrinkle in
this old woman’s face with thick
strokes of paint. He used this
painting as training example for
his pupils to copy.

31. Carlo Saraceni
“Saint Gregory is shown in suspended
animation, interrupted by his writing
and turning toward the dove of Holy
Spirit hovering above his right
shoulder.”
“Saraceni depicts him sitting on the
papal throne, wearing an elaborately
embroidered cape fastened with a
jewelled clasp at the front surrounded
by book, with his papal tiara and an
Orthodox cross beside him.”

32. Carlo Saraceni

33. Giovanni Serodine

34. Matthew Stom

35. Nicolas Tournier

36. Nicolas Tournier

37. Alessandro Turchi

38. Willem van der Vliet

39. Matthew Stom

40. The ceiling decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Mattei de Giove, Rome, by Pietro Paolo Bonzi (1576-1636) and Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669).
The
End
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41. Nordic