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“For Caravaggio colour was always staged against black — ivory flesh, deep wine red, and a glaze of ochre rising out of shadow as if lit by a single candle.”
Caravaggio
Painter · Baroque · 1571–1610
Italian Baroque revolutionary whose chiaroscuro pulled saints and street thugs out of total darkness with a single shaft of light.
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“For Caravaggio colour was always staged against black — ivory flesh, deep wine red, and a glaze of ochre rising out of shadow as if lit by a single candle.”
Italian Baroque revolutionary whose chiaroscuro pulled saints and street thugs out of total darkness with a single shaft of light.
