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caravaggio

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Ca⋅ra⋅vag⋅gio

[kar-uh-vah-joh; It. kah-rah-vahd-jaw]
–noun
Mi⋅chel⋅an⋅ge⋅lo Me⋅ri⋅si da [mahy-kuhl-an-juh-loh muh-ree-zee dah, mik-uhl-; It. mee-kel-ahn-je-law me-ree-zee dah] , c1565–1609?, Italian painter.
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Ca·ra·vag·gio   (kār'ə-vä'jō, kä'rä-väd'jō)   
Italian painter of the baroque whose influential works, such as Deposition of Christ (1604), are marked by intense realism and revolutionary use of light.
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