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 1571, when the bubonic plague was still ravaging much of the population of Europe. His father, grandfather and grandmother each died of the plague in the span of three days when Caravaggio was just six years old, and his mother succumbed to the disease four years lat...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Despite this useful connection, the lowborn Merisi children would have to make their way in the world, especially after Fermo was carried off by the plague while still a young father. In three years (1576-1578), it carried off about a fifth of the city of Milan along with him. Such wa...
The 400-year-old canvas—depicting the beheading of an Assyrian general, Holofernes, by Judith from the biblical Book of Judith—was found in 2014 when the owners of a house near the southwestern city of Toulouse were investigating a leak in the ceiling. ...
Birth Year: 1571 Birth Country: Italy Gender: Male Best Known For: Caravaggio, or Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the fathers of modern painting. Industries Art Nacionalities Italian Death Year: 1610 Death date: July 18, 1610 Death City: Port'Ercole Death...