CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista:
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur. . Related Artists to CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista : |
Jan Gossaert Mabuse |
Xanthus Russell Smith |
Gerolamo Dai Libri |
Walter H.Everett |
Julius Lange |
