Caravaggio was an Italian baroque painter, who was the best exemplar of naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. ... These five years were an anguishing period of instability and humiliation. ... Although the use of both realistic types and strong chiaroscuro originated 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 baroque Rome. ...

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