Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects. He was one of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio – the so-called Utrecht Caravaggisti. Along with Gerrit van Hondhorst and Dirck van Baburen, Ter Brugghen was one of the most important Dutch painters to have been influenced by Caravaggio.
Pieter Bodart's Portrait of Henric Ter Brugghen (1708), engraving after a lost drawing by Gerard Hoet, 15.8 x 10.6 cm
Bacchante with an Ape (1627), 100 x 90 cm, Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Christ Crowned with Thorns (1620), 240 x 207 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The Supper at Emmaus (1621), 109 x 141 cm, Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Berlin
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 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 until his death. 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.
Chalk portrait of Caravaggio, c. 1621
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
The Musicians, 1595–1596, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (c. 1595), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
