Art 131 Essay 2 Caravaggio and Italian Baroque

Caravaggio brought a new dimension to Italian Baroque art and revolutionized Western painting.

Think about Caravaggio’s style, and why his style might have been considered revolutionary.

Write an essay directed to a student with no background in Italian Baroque art, in which you identify the key techniques used by the artist that we now identify as part of his unique style. Explain how each technique contributes to the overall impact of the work.

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The Italian Baroque
Although art is expressive, different artists often have varied approaches in achieving the expression necessary for a piece of art to be termed as so and have an appealing effect on the audience. As different artists developed various techniques of such expression, art underwent different periods of the approach to art,

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