Caravaggio

[kar-uh-vah-joh, kah-rah-vahd-jaw]

noun

1. Michelangelo Merisi da c1565–1609?, Italian painter.

Caravaggio

/ karaˈvaddʒo /

noun

1. Michelangelo Merisi da (mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da). 1571–1610, Italian painter, noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro.

Example Sentences

Everything was chosen for relevance to Caravaggio’s decade in Rome and to his Roman patrons.

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“I imagine what it would be like to be my favorite stuffed animal, Caravaggio, and the fires coming and reaching her.”

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Cinematographer Michael Cambio Fernandez cuts through the darkness like Caravaggio, using flashlights and headlights to pull people out of the void and into the bright.

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Without it, we wouldn’t know the riveting paintings of El Greco or Rubens, Caravaggio or Van Gogh, the way we do today.

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Caravaggio “was also obsessed with quality of light, its direction and the reality of it. Like a spotlight on what was interesting.”

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