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| Renowned 16th Century Artists | |
Among the 61 artists exhibited, 2 were born in the 16th century.
They are listed in the order of their birth from 1525 to 1571
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| Pieter Bruegel
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569)
Bruegel lived and worked in Antwerp and Brussels. He painted peasants merrymaking, feasting, and working and celebrating.
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Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Caravaggio is also known as Michelangelo Merisi and as the second Michelangelo.
Caravaggio painted mostly devotional art, he focused on figures and events from the New Testament and took seriously the mundane yet monumental quality of Christianity.
He used Roman street people as the model for the Apostles and Mary. He used larger than life proportions, highly theatrical lighting and crowded his significant figures into shallow spaces.
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