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Caravaggio

1571 - 1610

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caravaggio is the 11th most popular painter (up from 12th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Italy (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Painter.

Caravaggio is most famous for his painting "The Calling of Saint Matthew."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Caravaggio ranks 11 out of 2,023. Before him are Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, and Peter Paul Rubens. After him are Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Sandro Botticelli, Edvard Munch, Diego Velázquez, and Henri Matisse.

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Among people born in 1571, Caravaggio ranks 2. Before him is Johannes Kepler. After him are Abbas the Great, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Emperor Go-Yōzei, Michael Praetorius, Mulla Sadra, Frederick de Houtman, Thomas Mun, Willem Blaeu, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, and Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy. Among people deceased in 1610, Caravaggio ranks 1. After him are Henry IV of France, Matteo Ricci, Ludolph van Ceulen, François Ravaillac, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Honda Tadakatsu, Adam Elsheimer, Anna of Sweden, False Dmitry II, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, and Hasegawa Tōhaku.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Caravaggio ranks 28 out of 5,161. Before him are Virgil (-70), Pope Paul VI (1897), Pope John XXIII (1881), Francis of Assisi (1182), Pope Pius XII (1876), and Pompey (-106). After him are Pope Pius IX (1792), Marcus Aurelius (121), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Nero (37), Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768), and Ovid (-43).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Caravaggio ranks 3. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), and Raphael (1483). After him are Sandro Botticelli (1445), Giotto (1267), Donatello (1386), Titian (1488), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526).

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