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Polidoro da Caravaggio

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Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio, was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now-vanished paintings on the facades of Roman houses. He was unrelated to the later painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, usually known just as Caravaggio, but both came from the town of Caravaggio.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Two Roman Warriors with She-Wolf, Romulus, and Remus

1780 · Pen and black ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper, prepared with a brown wash and squared in white chalk, laid down on cream card

32.5 × 26.8 cm (12 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flight of Celia

1580 · Black chalk and brush and brown wash on tan laid paper

22.2 × 34.2 cm (8 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Adoration of the Shepherds

1580 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

28.6 × 41.2 cm (11 5/16 × 16 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone

1567 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper

20.4 × 48.7 cm (8 1/16 × 19 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Studies for an Altarpiece with the Virgin Enthroned, Attended by Four Saints (recto); Various Figure Studies, Some Possibly for a Deposition of Christ (verso)

1530 · Pen and brown ink, some brush and brown wash

7-15/16 x 11-3/4 in. (20.2 x 29.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist

1520 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and grayish brown wash over black chalk with white heightening, traces of squaring in pen and brown ink (especially evident at lower right and lower left).

sheet: 6 15/16 x 9 in. (17.7 x 22.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frieze with Eight Putti

1519 · Pen and brown ink and brush and red chalk wash on cream laid paper

10.6 × 32.9 cm (4 3/16 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Turning Left; Male Nude Blowing Trumpet

1519 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on green wove paper

21 × 19.7 cm (8 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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