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MANFREDI, Bartolomeo
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Lute_Playing_Young_sg
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Oil_on_canvas,_105_x_77_cm
The_Hermitage,_St._Petersburg
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Lute Playing Young sg
MANFREDI, Bartolomeo5.jpg
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| Oil on canvas, 105 x 77 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg |
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Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1582-1622
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. Yet by the 18th century his works were forgotten or confused with those of Caravaggio himself,
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