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Artists who influenced Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Caravaggio was an Italian baroque painter who was the best exemplar of naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. His use of models from the lower classes of society in his early secular works and later religious compositions appealed to the Counter Reformation taste for realism, simplicity, and piety in art. Equally important is his introduction of dramatic light-and-dark effects - termed c ... more (Google)Artists who were influenced by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Jacopo Tintoretto

Entombment
(Vatican Pinacoteca)

Ecstasy of Saint Francis
(Wadsworth Atheneum)

Rembrandt

Titian

Madonna Palafrenieri
(Galleria Borghese)

Judith Beheading Holofernes
(Palazzo Barberini)

Peter Rubens

Michelangelo

Taking of Christ
(National Gallery of Ireland)

David with Head of Goliath
(Galleria Borghese)

Diego Velázquez

Giuseppe Cesari

Rest on Flight into Egypt
(Galleria Doria Pamphilj)

Martyrdom of Saint Peter
(Santa Maria del Popolo)

Jusepe de Ribera