... between 1588 and 1592, Caravaggio went to Rome. He was already in possession of the fundamental technical skills of painting and had acquired, with characteristic eagerness had developed a style that was nearer to representing nature and events. Caravaggio arrived in Rome and settled into the cosmopolitan society of the Campo Marzio. This decaying neighborhood of inns, eating houses, ... in northern Italian art of the previous century, Caravaggio brought new life and immediacy to these aspects of painting, with which he affected a transformation of anticlassical Mannerism in early baroqu...

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