Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the Marchese of Caravaggio, a town not far from the city of Bergamo. His mother, Lucia Aratori (Lutia de Oratoribus), came from ...
Caravaggio was born in Milan on 29 September 1571 with the birth name Michelangelo Merisi. His father, Fermo Merisi, was a notary of the hill town of Caravaggio some 40 kilometres east of Milan. The family moved to the town in 1576, to avoid the plague sweeping the city. After the dea...
Caravaggio was born in Milan in 1571. His father, Fermo was the household administrator, architect and decorator to the Marchese of Caravaggio, a small town near the city of Bergamo, and the place from which Caravaggio would take his artist name later in life. In 1576 he and his family mo...
it was the tragedy that befell him when he was just a little boy. To understand the experiences that most deeply shaped him, it is necessary to begin where he was born: in the town of Caravaggio, in Lombardy, from which he would later take his name. He lived both there and in the...
Caravaggio, or Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the fathers of modern painting.
Born: September 29, 1571, Milan or Caravaggio [Italy] Died: July 18/19, 1610, Porto Ercole,Tuscany Notable Works: “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” “Death of the Virgin” “The Beheading of St. John the Baptist” “The Burial of St. Lucy” ...
Born into a prosperous Milanese family, Merisi grew up in his mother's town, Caravaggio (hence his name). Following an apprenticeship in Milan, he left that city in 1592, having wounded a law oficer during a quarrel. He soon found work in Rome. Here he met, among others, Mario Minniti...
minimum. The text he holds open, a second closed one and a third kept open by a skull are perched on a small table. Harsh lighting emphasizes the sinewy muscles of his tired arms and the parallel between his bony head and the skull - man is born to die, but the Word of God lives...
But since fleeing the papal capital, he had produced yet more remarkable art, and these are the focus of the National Gallery's Caravaggio: The Final Yearswhich opens this week. Named after his hometown near Milan where he was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571, Caravaggio had made his ...
Caravaggio(born September 29, 1571,Milanor Caravaggio [Italy]—died July 18/19, 1610, Porto Ercole, Tuscany) was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettlingrealismof his large-scale religious works. ...