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Bartolomeo Manfredi

Italian painter (1582–1622)

Bartolomeo Manfredi

Tavern Scene with a Lute Player by Bartolomeo Manfredi

Born25 August 1582
Died12 December 1622(1622-12-12) (aged 40)
NationalityItalian

Bartolomeo Manfredi (baptised 25 August 1582 – 12 December 1622) was an Italian painter, a leading member of the Caravaggisti (followers of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) of the early 17th century.

Life

Manfredi was born in Ostiano, near Cremona.

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He may have been a pupil of Caravaggio in Rome: at his famous libel trial in 1603 Caravaggio mentioned that a certain Bartolomeo Cristofori, accused of distributing scurrilous poems attacking Caravaggio's detested rival Baglione, had been a servant of his. Certainly the Bartolomeo Manfredi known to art history was a close follower of Caravaggio's innovatory style, with its enhanced chiaroscuro and insistence on naturalism, with a gift for story-telling through expression and body-langua Bartolomeo Manfredi | Biography, Art, Oil Paintings, The ...

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