The earliest of Caravaggio paintings was the Boy Peeling a Fruit. The early Caravaggio paintings were paintings of flowers and fruits including Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Young Sick Bacchus. Physical Particularity is an aspect of Caravaggio realism for which he became famous for. This aspect was demonstrated in these paintings.
Michelangelo Merisi o Amerighi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist who was active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily. The first of Caravaggio paintings with more than one figure was The Fortune Teller. It carried the theme that was quite new for Rome, that of Mario Minniti, a 16 year old Sicilian artist, being cheated by a Gypsy girl. The theme proved to be immensely influential over the next century and beyond.
Considered to be the first true Caravaggio masterpiece, The Cardsharps was among the more psychologically complex Caravaggio paintings. It featured a boy falling victim to card cheats. The following Caravaggio paintings, i.e., The Musicians, The Lute Player, a tipsy Bacchus and Boy Bitten by a Lizard, became the center of dispute among scholars and biographers mainly because of their homoerotic ambiance.
Returning to realism, Caravaggio paintings centered on religious themes that showed an emergence of remarkable spirituality. Penitent Magdalene, Saint Catherine, Martha and Mary Magdalene, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Sacrifice of Isaac, Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy and Rest on the Flight into Egypt are among these religious paintings.
Raphael Sanzio celebrated perfection and grace with the serene and harmonious qualities of the Raphael paintings. This Italian High Renaissance painter and architect, together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the period.
Raphael's early years in Umbria, a 4 year period absorbing Florence's artistic traditions and his last hectic and triumphant 12 years in Rome consisted the 3 phases and 3 styles into which Raphael paintings naturally fall into.
The technique behind the early Raphael paintings was the application of thick paint, made possible with the use of an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments and the application of thin paint on flesh areas. This technique is very evident in a brilliant self-portrait drawing that showed the precocious talent of Raphael.
The first documented work among Raphael paintings was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. Raphael paintings, in the following years, consisted of painted works for other churches, including the Mond Crucifixion, the Brera Wedding of the Virgin and Oddi Altarpiece. They were large works, some in fresco.
Small and exquisite cabinet Raphael paintings during the period included the Three Graces and St. Michael. There was also the beginning of Madonna and portrait paintings among Raphael paintings in the same period.
Michelangelo Merisi o Amerighi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist who was active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily. The first of Caravaggio paintings with more than one figure was The Fortune Teller. It carried the theme that was quite new for Rome, that of Mario Minniti, a 16 year old Sicilian artist, being cheated by a Gypsy girl. The theme proved to be immensely influential over the next century and beyond.
Considered to be the first true Caravaggio masterpiece, The Cardsharps was among the more psychologically complex Caravaggio paintings. It featured a boy falling victim to card cheats. The following Caravaggio paintings, i.e., The Musicians, The Lute Player, a tipsy Bacchus and Boy Bitten by a Lizard, became the center of dispute among scholars and biographers mainly because of their homoerotic ambiance.
Returning to realism, Caravaggio paintings centered on religious themes that showed an emergence of remarkable spirituality. Penitent Magdalene, Saint Catherine, Martha and Mary Magdalene, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Sacrifice of Isaac, Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy and Rest on the Flight into Egypt are among these religious paintings.
Raphael Sanzio celebrated perfection and grace with the serene and harmonious qualities of the Raphael paintings. This Italian High Renaissance painter and architect, together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the period.
Raphael's early years in Umbria, a 4 year period absorbing Florence's artistic traditions and his last hectic and triumphant 12 years in Rome consisted the 3 phases and 3 styles into which Raphael paintings naturally fall into.
The technique behind the early Raphael paintings was the application of thick paint, made possible with the use of an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments and the application of thin paint on flesh areas. This technique is very evident in a brilliant self-portrait drawing that showed the precocious talent of Raphael.
The first documented work among Raphael paintings was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. Raphael paintings, in the following years, consisted of painted works for other churches, including the Mond Crucifixion, the Brera Wedding of the Virgin and Oddi Altarpiece. They were large works, some in fresco.
Small and exquisite cabinet Raphael paintings during the period included the Three Graces and St. Michael. There was also the beginning of Madonna and portrait paintings among Raphael paintings in the same period.
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