Caravaggio

Celebrating the work of Caravaggio

Here in our gallery we are deeply submerged in the theater and Chiaroscuro of Caravaggio's art. He is all around us, on canvas and on ceramic tile tableau's.

Caravaggio played with light and dark, darkening the shadows and intensifying the light, making his paintings almost three dimensional and giving them a dramatic flair.

With the exhibition in the Rijksmuseum fresh on my mind I choose five Caravaggio's to reproduce.

Amor Victorious, Boy with a basket of fruit, Boy bitten by a lizard, Young Sick Bacchus and Narcissus.

Many weeks of color matching and experimenting with varnish followed, looking for the perfect luster.

The Giclée printer we use to make our reproductions has five shades of black which lends itself so perfectly to the shadows (oscuro) in Caravaggio's work.

For the canvas reproductions I chose a stretcher frame of 4,5 cm deep, to give it a strong and bold look.

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