Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 28, 1573 – July 18, 1610), usually called simply Caravaggio after his hometown near Milan, was an Italian Baroque painter, whose large religious works portrayed saints and other biblical figures as ordinary people.
[edit] Works
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Medusa,1597
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Judith beheading Holofernes (1599-1600)
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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
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The penitent Mary Magdalen (c. 1598)
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Canestra di frutta (basket of fruits)