Bartolomeo manfredi biography of donald

          Following the example of the revolutionary early seventeenth-century artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Bartolomeo Manfredi chose to depict ordinary.

          Manfredi () was a crucial early adopter of Caravaggio's innovations.!

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          BiographyBorn Ostiano, nr Mantua, bapt 25 Aug 1582; died 12 Dec 1622.

          Italian painter. In the 17th century he was known throughout Italy and beyond as Caravaggio’s closest follower and his works were highly prized and widely collected.

          More than simply aping Caravaggio’s style, Manfredi reinterpreted his subjects and rendered new ones, drawing upon Caravaggio’s naturalism and dramatic use of chiaroscuro. His paintings were often praised by his contemporaries as equal to Caravaggio’s and he was subsequently emulated and imitated by other Roman Caravaggisti during the 1610s and 1620s.

          Manfredi was the great conscious imitator of Caravaggio, to the point that many of his works have been considered originals of the master.

        1. Manfredi was the great conscious imitator of Caravaggio, to the point that many of his works have been considered originals of the master.
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        3. Manfredi () was a crucial early adopter of Caravaggio's innovations.
        4. Only a few dozen paintings survive by Manfredi, who was the best of Caravaggio's followers.
        5. Bartolomeo Manfredi was Caravaggio's most important follower in early seventeenth century Rome.

          6. Yet by the 18th century his works were forgotten or confused with those of Caravaggio himself, and he is today among the most enigmatic Italian Baroque painters.

          He learnt the principles of painting in Milan, Cremona and Brescia, and moved to Rome probably c.

          1605, perhaps earlier (Mancini). There he studied with Cristoforo Roncalli (Baglione) and may have been Caravaggio’s assis