Bartolomeo Cavarozzi: 8 cool facts

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587–1625), occasionally referred to as Bartolomeo Crescenzi, was an Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period. Cavarozzi’s work start receiving increased exaltation and wave from art historians in the last few decades of the 20th century, emerging as one of the more Definite and original followers of Caravaggio. He received training from Giovanni Battista Crescenzi in Rome and well ahead traveled to Spain next to his master for a few years where he achieved some renown and was significant in spreading “Caravaggism” to Spain previously returning to Italy. His unshakable works are predominantly Biblical subjects and still-life paintings, although older references note he “was esteemed a good painter especially of portraits”.