Caravaggio the Mentor
Caravaggio refused to take on apprentices, students or assistants, however his work still had a big impact on artists from Rome, elsewhere in Italy, and from various other countries. The painters who imitated his style were eventually referred to as Caravaggisti.
Caravaggio’s revolutionary approach to painting and his use of the technique of chiaroscuro had a significant impact on painters at the beginning of the century. Italian Caracaggisti included prominent artists Orazio Gentileschi and Bartolommeo Manfredi. In Naples, Caracciolo, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Ribera all studied and followed Caravaggio’s work. In the 1620s Caravaggio’s work went out of popularity in Rome however elsewhere in Italy and Europe the popularity remained. Baburen, Honthorst, and Terbrugghen helped to make the city of Utrecht a center of Caravaggism. In Lorraine, Georges de La Tour, the Frenchman, was perhaps the most important painter to follow in Caravaggio’s style. The Caravaggesque style is also seen in works by some of the greatest 17th century artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, and Velazquez.
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