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CARAVAGGIO: Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto

🖼 Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, 1597-1600
Ceiling painting in oil
300 × 152 cm
Rome, Italy

Dramatic chiaroscuro renders three classical gods in muscular physicality, their forms emerging from shadow with theatrical intensity. Caravaggio revolutionized mythological painting by grounding divine subjects in visceral realism, challenging Renaissance idealization with streetwise sensuality.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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