# BAGLIONE, Giovanni [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1566–? - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Roman painter, one of Caravaggio 's strongest personal adversaries in Roman artistic circles, who is known to posterity almost exclusively through his very sober and reliable "Vite de' Pittori" \(Lives of Painters\), published at the end of his long lifetime. His animosity toward Caravaggio is shown in almost every line of his biography. On the other hand, he was despised and derided by Caravaggio's clique. As an artist Baglione was, strangely enough, a follower of Caravaggio, especially in his use of light and dark. He published a long list of his works at the end of his autobiography, but in spite of some very interesting performances, he never really developed a consistent and expressive artistic personality. ## Related artworks - [Clio]() - [Heavenly Love and Earthly Love]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads]() - [Judith and the Head of Holofernes]() - [Sacred and Profane Love]() - [St John the Baptist in the Wilderness]() - [St Sebastian Healed by an Angel]() - [St Sebastian Succoured by the Angels]() - [The Dream of St Joseph]() - [The Ecstasy of St Francis]() - [The Virgin and the Child with Angels]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()