The Caravaggisti were stylistic followers of the late 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. His influence on the new Baroque style that eventually emerged from Mannerism was profound. Carav
Mars Chastising Cupid (ca. 1605–1610) by Bartolomeo Manfredi
Baglione – The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros, ca. 1602, Gemäldegalerie
Borgianni – Christ amongst the Doctors, ca. 1605–1610
Saraceni – Judith with the Head of Holophernes, 1610–1615, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life. He began his apprenticeship in Milan in 1584,
Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. 1621
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
The Cardsharps, c. 1594, Oil on canvas, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
The Musicians, 1595–1596, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York