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See also: CARAVAGGIO, See also:MICHELANGELO AMERIGHI (or MERIGI) DA (1569-1609) , See also:Italian painter, was See also:born in the See also:village of Caravaggio, in See also:Lombardy, from which he received his name. He was originally a See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
mason's labourer, but his powerful See also:genius directed him to See also:painting, at which he worked with immitigable See also:energy and amazing force. He despised every sort of See also:idealism whether See also:noble or emasculate, became the See also:head of the Naturalisti (unmodified imitators of See also:ordinary nature) in painting, and adopted a See also:style of potent contrasts of See also:light and See also:shadow, laid on with a sort of fury, indicative of that fierce See also:temper which led the artist to commit a See also:homicide in a gambling See also:quarrel at See also:Rome. To avoid the consequences of his See also:crime he fled to See also:Naples and to See also:Malta, where he was imprisoned for another See also:attempt to avenge a quarrel. Escaping to See also:Sicily, he was attacked by a party sent in pursuit of him, and severely wounded. Being pardoned, he set out for Rome; but having been arrested by See also:mistake before his arrival, and afterwards released, and See also:left to shift for himself in excessive See also:heat, and still suffering from wounds and hardships,
he died of See also:fever on the See also:beach at Pontercole in 1609.
End of Article: CARAVAGGIO, MICHELANGELO AMERIGHI (or MERIGI) DA (1569-1609)
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