2 euro - Caravaggio - Vatican - 2021 - BU

2 euro commemorative BU dedicated to the 450th anniversary of Caravaggio. Caravaggio, or Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the fathers of modern painting. His paintings combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows.