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Caravaggio was controversial because he often depicted religious figures in a way that the Church disagreed with. For example, in this painting of The Death of the Virgin, it is said that he based his depiction of the virgin off of a dead prostitute that he pulled from the river. The point being that he depicted saints and religious figures as normal looking humans rather than idealizing them.

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It was too brutally naturalistic.

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Q: Why was Caravaggio's work sometimes rejected?
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