History of Art: Baroque and Rococo - Battistello Caracciolo

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

	Cupid Sleeping
	Cristo nell'orto Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
	Venus and Adonis 1630

Lamentation of Adam and Eve on the Dead Abel
Oil on canvas, 200 x 148 cm

Salome
1615-20,
Oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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