Caravaggio is a proper noun referring to the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio or to works associated with him. The name is pronounced with Italian phonology, typically stressing the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable in English-adopted usage, and can be heard with varying anglicizations in non-Italian contexts. It is often used in art history, museum labels, and scholarly discussion about Baroque painting and chiaroscuro.
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