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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Raising of the Cross ca. 1615-20 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Marcantonio Bassetti Dead Christ supported by the Virgin and Mary Magdalene ca. 1616 oil on black marble (pietra da paragone) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Orazio Borgianni St Christopher carrying the infant Christ ca. 1615 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
"Despite van Mander's disparaging assessment of Caravaggio's bellicose character ("Mars and Venus have never been good friends"), the biographer nevertheless praised the living painter's wondrous manner as "one for our young artists to follow." Caravaggio [1573-1610] became an international figure worthy of emulation. His early works were touchstones for artists who visited Rome, from Simon Vouet and Valentin de Boulogne to ter Brugghen and Honthorst. Rubens, Rembrandt, Ribera, Nicolas Regnier, Georges de la Tour, and many others responded directly or indirectly to this legacy. . . . Today, the scores of Caravaggisti exhibitions and intact princely Roman collections with "tenebristic" paintings covering the walls attest to Caravaggio's impact. Yet there was also a tremendous critical backlash in Rome after his death. The emulation of Caravaggio by a generation of young painters became one of the leitmotifs of the criticism waged against Caravaggio by Giulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, and Giovan Pietro Bellori in the following decades."
– Todd P. Olson, from Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics (Yale University Press, 2014)
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| Hendrick ter Brugghen Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1617-20 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Giovanni Serodine The Tribute Money ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Guercino Betrayal of Christ before 1621 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Pietro Novelli Cain killing Abel ca. 1625-50 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Anonymous Italian painter working in Emilia Deliverance of St Peter by the Angel ca. 1625-50 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Guido Reni Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 1625-26 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Jan Lievens Portrait of a young man in fancy dress ca. 1631 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Francesco Furini St Sebastian ca. 1633 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Simon Vouet Entombment ca. 1635-38 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Jan Baptist Weenix Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1647-50 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Jan Miel Veneration of St Lambert ca. 1648 oil on canvas (modello for fresco executed in Rome) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |