![]() ![]() Many of his paintings from this time are dark and melancholy, such as 'Salome Receives the Head of St John the Baptist'. He was forced to flee Rome, settling in Naples and then travelling to Malta, Sicily and around southern Italy. In May 1606, during a game of racquets he quarrelled with his opponent and stabbed him to death. He then secured a string of prestigious commissions, many of them religious works.Ĭaravaggio seems to have lived a tempestuous life, frequently getting involved in brawls. These paintings were his first public work and they caused a sensation with their extreme realism and dramatic contrasts of light and shade. It was probably through the Cardinal that in 1599 he obtained the commission to decorate the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome with scenes from the life of St Matthew. ![]() An early patron was Cardinal del Monte, a leading art connoisseur in Rome. He specialised in still lifes and later in half-length figures such as 'Boy with a Basket of Fruit'. ![]() Caravaggio moved to Rome in the early 1590s. In 1584, he was apprenticed for four years to Simone Peterzano, an artist working in Milan. Michelangelo Merisi was born in September 1571 in Caravaggio, near Milan and was always known by the name of his hometown. ![]() Caravaggio was a Baroque artist and the greatest Italian painter of the 17th century. ![]()
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