12 Facts About Caravaggisti

Caravaggisti were stylistic followers of the late 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.

The first Caravaggisti included Mario Minniti, Giovanni Baglione, Leonello Spada and Orazio Gentileschi.

Caravaggisti's work had a profound effect on the local artists and his brief stay in Naples produced a notable school of Neapolitan Caravaggisti, including Battistello Caracciolo, Bernardo Cavallino, Carlo Sellitto, Massimo Stanzione, Francesco Guarino, Mattia Preti, Andrea Vaccaro, Cesare Fracanzano and Antonio de Bellis.

The Caravaggisti movement there ended with a terrible outbreak of plague in 1656, but at the time Naples was a possession of Spain and the influence of Caravaggism had already spread there.

Caravaggisti later made a copy of Caravagio's Entombment of Christ and recommended his patron, the Duke of Mantua, to purchase The Death of the Virgin.

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The list of Antwerp Caravaggisti is significantly longer reflecting the importance of this city as the pre-eminent artistic centre of Flanders.

Some Flemish Caravaggisti left their homeland for Italy where they were influenced by the work of Caravaggio and his followers and never returned home.

Caravaggisti's patrons included the Barberini family, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Paolo Giordano Orsini and Vincenzo Giustiniani.

Caravaggisti visited other parts of Italy: Venice; Bologna,; Genoa, (where from 1620 to 1622, he worked for the Doria princes); and Naples.

Caravaggisti absorbed what he saw and distilled it in his painting: Caravaggio's dramatic lighting; Italian Mannerism; Paolo Veronese's color and di sotto in su or foreshortened perspective; and the art of Carracci, Guercino, Lanfranco and Guido Reni.

Caravaggisti's paintings reflect the influence of Caravaggio, but this probably reached him through the Dutch Caravaggisti and other Northern contemporaries.

Caravaggisti rose to prominence as an artist during the reign of Pope Paul V, but by 1617 had moved to Madrid, and from 1620 on, he was active in El Escorial.