Adam Elsheimer 1578-1610

Migrated to Rome, around 1600, where the new Barroque style was being forged (by Caravaggio and the native italians and by northerners painters such has Elsheimer himself),the german painter came to develop a wonderfull mastery of light, antecipating Claude, Poussin and a whole host of landscape painters; a dramtic chiaroscuro that gave new depth to his subject-matter; and a rather less definable poetic feeling that gives a special savour to all his paintings.