Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail) - WGA04126
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Public domain photo of an Italian art painting, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Trained in Milan and active in Rome (1592–1606), Naples (1606–7; 1609–10), Malta (1607–8), and Sicily (1608–9), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was one of the most revolutionary figures of European art. His practice of painting directly from posed models violated the idealizing premise of Renaissance theory and promoted a new relationship between painting and viewer by breaking down the conventions that maintained painting as a plausible fiction rather than an extension of everyday experience.
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Date
1599 - 1600
Source
Web Gallery of Art
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public domain