Caravaggio was an Italian baroque painter, who was the best exemplar of naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. ... 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. ... Despite his personal protestations that nature was his only teacher, Caravaggio obviously studied and assimilated the styles of the High Renaissance master, especially that of Michelangelo. ... He discouraged potential students, but throughout the century a naturalist sch...

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