Unknown Caravaggio discovered in Britain
June 23rd, 2011 - 8:57 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattLondon, June 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A work of legendary artist Caravaggio which had previously not been seen before has been discovered in Britain. The work will appear in print for the first time next month thanks to a group of scholars.
The work showed several characteristics of Caravaggio’s piece. The painting is dated back to 1600 and at the time that Caravaggio made the drawings he might have been 28 years old. The painting is Saint Augustine looking down over his books lying on his desk. A professor of art history at the University of Vienna Sebastian Schütze who is also one of the people working on the upcoming print told reporters that the find is quite significant for the art world.
He explained that, “What looked like an anonymous 17th-century painting revealed its artistic qualities after restoration.”
The discovery is important for the art world because fewer than 50 of the works of Caravaggio still exist up to this day. Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1571. Caravaggio’s style of painting changed painting at the time. His technique was “ground-breaking use of contrast between light and dark - a technique known as chiaroscuro.”
He died in 1610.
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