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Caravaggio "Judith Beheading Holofernes" 1598-99 (detail) | Flickr Hair, Red Hair, Art, Caravaggio, A Woman, Red, White

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610) Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ancient Art, Rome Italy Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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