16th Century Artists
- 16th century artist most famous for htheirs paintings: Pieter Brueghel Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci, Caravaggio Caravaggio
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- Pieter Brueghel Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569)
- Brueghel lived and worked in Antwerp and Brussels. He painted peasants merrymaking, feasting, and working and celebrating.
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- Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)
- Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter and graphical artist who posited the ideal in nature.
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- Caravaggio Caravaggio (1571-1610)
- Caravaggio is also known as Michelangelo Merisi and as the second Michelangelo. Caravaggio painted mostly devotional art, he focused on figures and events from the New Testament and took seriously the mundane yet monumental quality of Christianity. He used Roman street people as the model for the Apostles and Mary. He used larger than life proportions, highly theatrical lighting and crowded his significant figures into shallow spaces.
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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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