Western Artists Gallery 25 Caravaggio

Author: DeAgostini Publishing Company
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: Caravaggio was active in Rome at a time when Rome was the artistic center of Europe, and painters from various Western European countries flocked to visit. Most of them were not Italian, yet they brought Caravaggio's style back to their own countries. When Caravaggio fled to Southern Italy and the Mediterranean, he also directly influenced the local art scene. Naples, where he stayed for more than a year, was a territory of Spain and had long served as a melting pot of Italian and Spanish art. The foundational literature on Caravaggio—B. Nicolao's book "Caravaggism in Europe"—mentions over one hundred Caravaggio-style painters who emerged in various Italian cities, Central Europe, Denmark, Greece, Flanders, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.