Caravaggioin a sentence
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Caravaggio is revered for his naturalistic style of Baroque painting.
Caravaggio = the first great artist of the Baroque school (1573-1610)
- A Caravaggio flickered onto the screen—Judith Beheading Holofernes.† (source)
- He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- He was a child when I found him, a Caravaggio angel painted in blood.† (source)
- 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)
- "You and Caravaggio are old friends?" asked Cohen.† (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)
- I copied the text, not including Caravaggio's full name because, in a selective display of integrity, I decided that would be cheating.† (source)
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- At the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, I stood before Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes and did not once think about chickens.† (source)
- I knew the painting was by Caravaggio but I remembered only the surname and even that I couldn't spell.† (source)
- Remembering the chickens, I wondered at the plausibility of Caravaggio's scene: no one had that look on their face— that tranquil, disinterested expression—when taking off something's head.† (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)
- The painting, Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, was arguably the world's most famous missing work of art.† (source)
- Nor would he hear the soft bristly tap of a Winsor & Newton Series 7 paintbrush against a Caravaggio.† (source)
- The villa would be a thousand square meters, the Bugatti green, the Caravaggio a crucifixion scene, the yacht a ketch, and the apartment close to the cathedral.† (source)
- Or perhaps Caravaggio himself was stealing into the museum at night, a sword in one hand, a brush in the other, to assist with the work.† (source)
- During his long career he had carried out several unusual restorations—he had once repaired a Rembrandt portrait that had been pierced by a bullet—but the Caravaggio altarpiece propped upon Gabriel's easels was without question the most damaged canvas he had ever seen.† (source)
- …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)
- 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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