Caravaggio
29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an Italian painter whose dramatic use of light and shadow (chiaroscuro) and unflinching realism revolutionized European painting. His turbulent life included a murder conviction that forced him to flee Rome, and he died at age 38 while seeking a papal pardon.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Caravaggio.
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Life events
Michelangelo Merisi was born in Milan, taking his artistic name from the town of Caravaggio in Lombardy where his family had roots.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe young Caravaggio began a four-year apprenticeship with Simone Peterzano, a pupil of Titian.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCaravaggio arrived in Rome, where he initially worked in poverty painting still lifes and copies before finding patrons.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCardinal del Monte took Caravaggio into his household, launching the painter's career among Rome's elite.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCaravaggio's canvases for the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi made him the most famous painter in Rome.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCaravaggio killed Ranuccio Tomassoni in a fight, was sentenced to death in absentia, and fled Rome as an outlaw.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIn Naples, Caravaggio painted major commissions including The Seven Works of Mercy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCaravaggio was made a Knight of Malta in July 1608 but was imprisoned after a brawl and expelled from the order after escaping to Sicily.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCaravaggio died of fever at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, reportedly while journeying to Rome in hopes of a papal pardon.
Source: en.wikipedia.org