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Caravaggioโ€™s Innovative Painting Techniques

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Master Baroque artist Caravaggio used a โ€œcamera obscuraโ€ among other techniques to trace the models in his paintings.

According to a Florentine researcher, Caravaggio made use of a dark room, first described by Leonardo da Vinci, and was able to fix the outline of his subjects in order to paint them.

Itโ€™s unclear whether the artist used or needed optical instruments to paint his famous scenes of food and banquets. These, of course, were the subject of a book we mentioned in an earlier post titled Caravaggioโ€™s Kitchen by Gianni Ummarino. Several readers have written to us to ask how to obtain this book. We havenโ€™t been able to find it on amazon.com or through other vendors. But we did find the author/photographerโ€™s website. Go to ummarinoeummarino.com for more information.

Update! The title of the Ummarino book is 15 Ricette del Rinascimento (15 Recipes from the Renaissance) and can be ordered directly from Ummarinoโ€™s website.

Photo from Discovery, Inc.

Last updated on December 15th, 2020

Post first published on March 12, 2009

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