Painting of the Italian painter Caravaggio “Narcissus by the stream”. The size of the picture is 110 x 92 cm, canvas, oil. Caravaggio in his art acts as a bold innovator, challenging the aesthetic standards of his era.
The artist makes a hero of his works from a street crowd – a Roman teenager or a young man, endowed with a coarse sensual beauty and naturalness of mindlessly cheerful life; the hero of Karavaggio’s paintings appears in the role of a musician, then in the image of a simple-minded card player, then as a thoughtless dandy who listens to a wicked fortuneteller, then in the guise of Narcissus or a young man with the attributes of the ancient god Bacchus.
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Fortune-teller by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 
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Lutnist by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio 
Narcissus and Echo by Nicolas Poussin 
St. John the Baptist by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio 
Martyrdom of St. Matthew by Michelangelo Merisi and Caravaggio 
A boy with a basket of fruit by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio