Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635 Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur.   Related Paintings of CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista :. | The Rest on the Flight into Egypt | Christ Before Caiaphas | Liberation of St Peter f | Liberation of St Peter | Lamentation of Adam and Eve on the Dead Abel |
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Frans Jansz van Mierisi
1635-1681 Dutch Frans Jansz van Mierisi Gallery
William Logsdail
1859-1944 British William Logsdail Gallery
Pieter Wouwerman
1623-1682