Cristo nell'orto
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Baroque and Rococo
Battistello Caracciolo
Battistello Caracciolo
(b Naples, bapt 7 Dec 1578; d Naples, 1635).
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur. Unlike Caravaggio, he also worked in fresco.
Liberation of St Peter
1615
Oil on canvas
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
St Onophrius
c. 1625
Oil on canvas, 180 x 116 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
