Caravaggio

Speech parts

1. Caravaggio - Noun

2. Caravaggio - Proper noun

Meaning

Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)

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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create! Taiye Selasi

Few artists were ever fully well, so it is no great trick to prove them ill. There are commentators who can't get interested in Caravaggio until they find out he killed someone. They are only one step from believing that every killer is Caravaggio. Clive James

You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones. Michael Ondaatje

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. Michael Ondaatje

According to Catherine Puglisi 'Lena' may have been the same as the courtesan Maddalena di Paolo Antognetti, who named Caravaggio as an intimate friend by her own testimony in 1604. Source: Internet

According to a 17th-century writer the painting the head of Goliath is a self-portrait of the artist, while David is il suo Caravaggino, "his little Caravaggio". Source: Internet

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