Caravaggisti

Examples of Caravaggisti in the following topics:

• Ter Brugghen, van Honthorst, Hals, Leyster

  • The Utrecht Caravaggisti Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerrit van Honthorst, as well as Frans Hals and Judith Leyster, were genre painters of the Dutch Republic.
  • Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen (1588—1629) was a Dutch painter and a leading member of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio, or the Dutch Caravaggisti.
  • He certainly studied his work, as well as that of his followers, known as the Italian Caravaggisti.
  • Upon returning to the Dutch city of Utrecht, he worked with Gerard van Honthorst, another member of the Dutch Caravaggisti.

• Chiaroscuro

  • This theme played out with many artists in the first few decades of the seventeenth century, where it became associated with the Utrecht Caravaggisti like Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, and also with Flemish Baroque painters such as Jacob Jordaens.

• Italian Painting in the Baroque Period

  • His use of light and shadow was emulated by the Caravaggisti, the followers of Caravaggio, such as Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639), Artemisia Gentileschi (1592–1652/3), Mattia Preti, Carlo Saraceni, and Bartolomeo Manfredi.

• Rembrandt

  • This technique was most likely derived from the Dutch Caravaggisti, followers of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who had first used the chiaroscuro technique.