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=Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio--Podcast = media type="custom" key="4649663" = = =Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio--Script = Hey this Michael Auer and I am going to be talking about Micheangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. He was a man whose life was as dramatic as his paintings, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio came into the world in September, 28 1573 in a little town Caravaggio, Italy near Milan. Michelangelo was one of the earliest Baroque painters of his time, creating his paintings with a dark and urgent nature that reflected his desperate state of mind. Michelangelo was one of the most innovative artists of the Renaissance and he loved to portray figures emerging out of the darkness and to isolate a single moment in time like the Crucifixion of St. Peter, with part of their faces and body illuminated such as in his painting the calling of St. Matthew. He decided to make a different painting style after revolting against the 2 popular themes at the time mannerism and classicism. In his early paintings, Caravaggio used common people and set them in ordinary surroundings and then later on focusing on religious compositions

In 1577 his father, who was a mason, died and then his mother in 1584 becoming orphaned at age 11. Caravaggio then was apprenticed for the painter Simone Peterzano of Milan for 4 years during the year of his mother's death. Then later on after getting into a fight and wounding a police officer he fled to Rome where he worked as a assistant to Giuseppe Cesari. At Rome, Caravaggio, now 24 years old, was commissioned through the cardinal to paint for the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi. At the church, Michelangelo painted the 3 scenes of St. Matthew, called The Calling of St. Matthew. About 1601, Caravaggio received his second major commission, from Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome for a Conversion of Saint Paul and Crucifixion of Saint Peter. While staying in Rome he had trouble with the law yet again, being imprisoned for several assaults and for killing his opponent after a disputed score in a tennis game. After this murder he fled to Naples and waited for the pope to give him a pardon.

In San Domenico Maggiore, Naples he spent several months executing such works as the Flagellation of Christ, which were crucial to the development of naturalism among the artists of that city. Early in 1608, Caravaggio went to Malta and was a celebrated artist there. There he was made a knight of the Maltese order, and executed one of his few portraits of his fellow cavaliere Alof de Wignacourt. He was afraid that he was still being chased and he continued to flee for two more years. His paintings of this time were among the greatest and the last of his career like the Burial of Saint Lucy and the Raising of Lazarus. After receiving a pardon from the pope, he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for two days. After he got out of imprisonment, a boat that was to take him to Rome left without him, taking his belongings. Misfortune, exhaustion, and illness overtook him as he helplessly watched the boat depart. He collapsed on the beach and died of a fever on July 18, 1610. After his death, Caravaggio became a very famous and influential painter, his style spread throughout Europe, influencing Artemisia and Gentileschi.



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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

• Born in ~1573 in Caravaggio? Or Milan, Italy near Milan and died 1610 in Malta. • An early Italian Baroque painter The dark and urgent nature of his paintings at this time must have reflected Caravaggio's desperate state of mind. • Orphaned at age 11 Caravaggio's father died there in 1577 and his mother in 1584 after his family moved to Caravaggio in Lombardy to escape a plague in Milan. • Trained in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian • 1584 He was apprenticed to the painter Simone Peterzano of Milan for four years • 1588 and 1592, Caravaggio went to Rome after "certain quarrels" and the wounding of a police officer. and worked as an assistant to painters of lesser skill. • Through the cardinal, Caravaggio was commissioned, at age 24, to paint for the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. He painted realistic naturalism first fully appeared in three scenes he created of the life of St. Matthew. Ie The Calling of Saint Matthew • Caravaggio began to be envied. He had many encounters with the law during his stay in Rome. He was imprisoned for several assaults and for killing an opponent after a disputed score in a game of court tennis. • Fled to Naples for hiding awaiting a pardon by the pope • WebMuseum’s explanation of death: “Early in 1608 Caravaggio went to Malta and was received as a celebrated artist. Fearful of pursuit, he continued to flee for two more years, but his paintings of this time were among the greatest of his career. After receiving a pardon from the pope, he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for two days. A boat that was to take him to Rome left without him, taking his belongings. Misfortune, exhaustion, and illness overtook him as he helplessly watched the boat depart. He collapsed on the beach and died a few days later on July 18, 1610.”

//(2009). Caravaggio. Wikipedia. Retrieved (2009, September 21) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio.

Pioch, Nicolas (2002, September 19). //WebMuseum: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da //. Retrieved from http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/

Potter, Polyxeni (2003). Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). Basket of Fruit (1596). //Emerging Infectuous Diseases //, 9(12), Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no12/about_cover.htm

Barewalls Interactive Art Inc. (2009, September 21). Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Retrieved from http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio.html //

//**FROM BOOK: Renaissance and Reformation Biographies: **// 
 * One of the Most Innovative artists of the Renaissance
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Portrayed figures as if they were emerging out of the darkness, with part of their faces and bodies illuminated
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He revolted against mannerism and classicism (both dominant artistic styles at the time).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">didn't like elongated figures and curvilinear shapes from mannerism. Also didn't like paints that had to have a message in classicism.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Liked to Isolate a single instant in time. EX.- Boy Bitten by lizard, Crucifixion of St. Peter.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Never truly famous in his lifetime.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">His style was spread through out Europe, influencing Artemisia Gentileschi.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Historians note that with out Caravaggio it is impossible to understand the works of countless who followed in the 17th century.

Book Source Renaissance and Reformation Biographies Saari, Peggy, & Saari, Aaron (2002). Renaissance & Reformation Biographies. Michigan: The Gale Group Inc.

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 * ======<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">· Italian baroque painter, ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">· Most revolutionary artist of his time and the best at naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. ======
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">· Originally named Michelangelo Merisi was born September 28, 1573, in the Lombardy hill town of Caravaggio
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Orphaned at age of 11
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">he was apprenticed to the painter Simone Peterzano of Milan for four years. At some time between 1588 and 1592, Caravaggio went to Rome and worked as an assistant to Giuseppe Cesari, also known as the Cavaliere d'Arpino.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Caravaggio's personal life was disorderly. He was often arrested and imprisoned.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He fled Rome for Naples in 1606 when charged with murder. Later that year he traveled to Malta, was made a knight, or cavaliere, of the Maltese order.
 * ======<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In October of 1608, Caravaggio was again arrested and, escaping from a Maltese jail, went to Syracuse in Sicily. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He died on the beach at Port'Ercole in Tuscany on July 18, 1610, of a fever contracted after a mistaken arrest. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He created a forceful style, using contrasts of light and shade, dramatic foreshortening, and a careful attention to detail.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">His life was as dramatic as his art he had to leave Rome after killing a man in a brawl.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Instead of ideal figures, he painted the types he saw and knew, delighting in plebeian traits of character, contemporary dress and carefully delineated still life. Fortune Teller Bacchus Fruit Basket ====== <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Barewalls Interactive Art Inc. (2009, September 21). Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Retrieved from http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio.html// 1573-1609

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The son of a mason
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (2000, April 1). <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: normal;">// CARAVAGGIO, Michelangelo Merisi da (b. 1573, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole) // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: normal;">. Retrieved from http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/caravaggio_bioeng.htm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Caravaggio's mature manner commenced about 1600 with the commission to decorate the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome with three scenes of the life of Saint Matthew.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599?-1600) is noted for its dramatic use of cellar light, streaming in from a source above the action, to illuminate the hand gesture of Christ (based on Michelangelo's Adam on the Sistine ceiling) and the other figures, most of whom are in contemporary dress.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">About 1601, Caravaggio received his second major commission, from Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome for a Conversion of Saint Paul and Crucifixion of Saint Peter. In the former, a bright shaft of light carries symbolic meaning, indicating the bestowal of Christian faith upon Saul.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In Naples he spent several months executing such works as the Flagellation of Christ (San Domenico Maggiore, Naples), which were crucial to the development of naturalism among the artists of that city.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Later that year he traveled to Malta, was made a knight of the Maltese order, and executed one of his few portraits of his fellow cavaliere Alof de Wignacourt (1608, Louvre).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In October of 1608, Caravaggio was again arrested and, escaping from a Maltese jail, went to Syracuse in Sicily. While in Sicily he painted several monumental canvases, including the Burial of Saint Lucy (1608, Santa Lucia, Syracuse) and the Raising of Lazarus (1609, Museo Nazionale, Messina). These works were among Caravaggio's last, for the artist died on the beach at Port'Ercole in Tuscany on July 18, 1610, of a fever contracted after a mistaken arrest.