CARAVAGGISTA

Welcome! My name is Amy, and I'm an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art & architecture. If you guessed my favorite artist is Caravaggio, you would be right. On this blog, I share art from all time periods and provide resources for those studying art history.

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thank you for the time you put into this! sad to see you go, best of luck to you in everything you do 💟

Thank you! 💓 Running this site was deeply rewarding and enjoyable, but life has taken me in a different direction (at least, for now). Maybe I will be back in the future :)

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The time has come for me to officially close the book on Caravaggista.com, and by extension, this Tumblr. With the lack of new content over the years, this will not surprise you, but I want to formally say goodbye. 💜

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio died on this day, July 18, 1610 in Porto Ercole.

Nature, who feared to be surpassed In every image that you made Has, Michele, now, in league with Death, A cruel plot against you laid; For Death with indignation burned To know that many as his scythe Cut down, still more and usurously Your brush contrived to make alive.          — Giambattista Marino (1569 - 1625)

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Prayer of the Penitent Monks by Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749)

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By Martina Tanga

Gioacchino Asserto, an early baroque painter from Genoa, died on 28 June 1649. Dramatic compositions and vibrant light effects characterize Asserto’s pictures.

He was very inspired by the paintings of Caravaggio and he studied them first hand on a trip to Rome in 1939. Asserto’s repertoire includes mostly biblical scenes, fitting for the Counter-Reformation at its height at this time. He re-interpreted these familiar stories, depicting figures in contemporary dress, and fulfilling the Catholic Church’s doctrine that art should make viewers see and feel every aspect of the life and death of Christ. He was young when he died – only 49 – but throughout his life he was enormously prolific, and his paintings can now be found in major institutions around the world.

The Angel Appears to Hagar and Ishmael, 1640, Oil on Canvas, National Gallery, London, UK.

The Lamentation (The Pieta), c. 1640, oil on canvas, Cummer Museum, Florida.

Mocking of Job, 1645-50, Oil on canvas, Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.

Tobias Healing the Blindness of His Father, c. 1645, Oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille.

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The Nasir al-Mulk mosque in Shiraz, Iran. Photos from Atlas Obscura. 

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Rome, 35mm

The Roman Forum was definitely the best part of our whole trip – we spent hours just walking through the ancient ruins in silence. It is almost incomprehensible to me that all of this is still here. 

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“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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Botticelli c. 1483-1485, Birth of Venus

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Myrtle spray, said to be from a tomb near Eleusis in Attica

Greek, Classical Period, 400-350 B.C.

gold sheet over bronze core

British Museum

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Master I. A. M. of Zwolle - Allegory of the Transience of Life. 1480 - 1490

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Ulysses and Nausicaa, Jean Veber, 1888

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Fra Angelico.

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A Country Girl at Sorrento, Italy, 1776, Allan Ramsay

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Fra Angelico, Virgin of Humility, detail (1433-1435). 

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The first image is Bacchus from Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (c.1520-23). The second image is Dosso Dossi and is Apollo (c.1524). The only relationship between these two is that they were both commissioned by Alfonso d'Este.

I can see why you think that. Dossi was certainly influenced by Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne, but it is derivative of Titian and not by Titian himself. Dossi’s Bacchus is in a private collection.

For easy reference, here is Titian’s painting: