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CAMPI, Vincenzo (b. ca. 1530, Cremona, d. 1591, Cremona) |
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St Matthew and the Angel1588Oil on canvas, 268 x 180 cm San Francesco d'Assisi, Pavia | |
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This signed and dated painting is one of the most immediate antecedents of Caravaggio's realism and use of light. Caravaggio's study of this canvas may have given him more than a few ideas for his paintings in the Contarelli Chapel. | |
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