Georges de la Tour
Georges de La Tour (1593 -1652), French Baroque era painter, born in Lorraine, France, is famous for painting candlelight as a light source for evening scenes, mainly religious and genre paintings. His night scenes usually use only a candlelight as a light source, so the contrast between brightness and shadow is strongly displayed, which also gives the picture a quiet and warm atmosphere. He lived in a troubled world, and there is not much historical record of the trajectory of his life, but he may have been to Italy and the Netherlands, because his painting style was similar to the Baroque naturalism of Caravaggio in Italy, but perhaps learned from the Dutch Utrecht school or other northern schools of painting at the time.
