Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers (1903)
Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821, Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 60
Having obtained, through the in-fluence of his friends, the Popes pardon for themanslaughter of his companion, Caravaggio setsail from Naples for Rome, but he was takenprisoner on the way by some Spaniards, in mistakefor another man. On being set at hberty, he hadthe misfortune to find that the… … Hanfstingl photo] [ / ienna THE LUTE-PLAVER PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. weather, he was taken ill, and died in 1609. Themerit of Caravaggio is confined to colour, and toan extraordinary effect, produced by a daring con-trast of light and shadow, which only belongs tonature in abstracted situations. To…
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