Caravaggisti

plural noun

Ca·​ra·​vag·​gis·​ti ˌkär-ə-ˌvä-ˈjē-stē 

: artists of the 17th century who were influenced by or worked in the style of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio

In the Netherlands in the 1620s, the Utrecht Caravaggisti set the fashion for life-size half-length genre figures: drinkers, lute players and singers.

—Melissa Percival, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination, 2012

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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