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Caravaggio
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Caravaggio as in:  Michelangelo Merisi da Carvaggio

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  • In my obsessive reading the story that haunted me most was Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, stolen from the oratory of San Lorenzo and slashed from the frame so carelessly that the collector who'd commissioned the theft had burst out crying when he saw it and refused to take it.†  (source)
  • He was a child when I found him, a Caravaggio angel painted in blood.†  (source)
  • "You and Caravaggio are old friends?" asked Cohen.†  (source)
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  • Giotto's blues and Caravaggio's shadows had been united to portray a tranquil forest in neither night nor day but, rather, in a condition of the spirit.†  (source)
    Caravaggio = the first great artist of the Baroque school (1573-1610)
  • To be honest, I had split religion along the seam of secular and nonsecular; choosing to concentrate on the beauty of a Caravaggio without noticing the Madonna and child; or finding the best lamb recipe for a lavish Easter dinner, without thinking about the Passion.†  (source)
  • It seemed to him of evil omen that the young lady he wished to marry, and whose fastidious father he doubted of his ability to conciliate, should be immured in a kind of domestic fortress, a pile which bore a stern old Roman name, which smelt of historic deeds, of crime and craft and violence, which was mentioned in "Murray" and visited by tourists who looked, on a vague survey, disappointed and depressed, and which had frescoes by Caravaggio in the piano nobile and a row of mutilated statues and dusty urns in the wide, nobly-arched loggia overhanging the damp court where a fountain gushed out of a mossy niche.†  (source)
  • (*) Battle of Caravaggio, 15th September 1448†  (source)
  • It seemed to him of evil omen that the young lady he wished to marry, and whose fastidious father he doubted of his ability to conciliate, should be immured in a kind of domestic fortress, a pile which bore a stern old Roman name, which smelt of historic deeds, of crime and craft and violence, which was mentioned in "Murray" and visited by tourists who looked, on a vague survey, disappointed and depressed, and which had frescoes by Caravaggio in the piano nobile and a row of mutilated statues and dusty urns in the wide, nobly-arched loggia overhanging the damp court where a fountain gushed out of a mossy niche.†  (source)
  • Her handwriting was neat, and I could read what she'd written: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.†  (source)
  • Is that...a Caravaggio on the floor?†  (source)
  • Nor would he hear the soft bristly tap of a Winsor & Newton Series 7 paintbrush against a Caravaggio.†  (source)
  • His ambition was to own a villa overlooking the Tyrrhenian, a Bugatti automobile, a Caravaggio, a mahogany-andteak yacht, and an apartment in Seville, Spain.†  (source)
  • Duke Filippo being dead, the Milanese enlisted Francesco Sforza against the Venetians, and he, having overcome the enemy at Caravaggio,(*) allied himself with them to crush the Milanese, his masters.†  (source)
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