which have been inferred both from his paintings and from certain historical documents, have added greater intrigue to hislegend. He might be described as the perfect Old Master for an age in love with the idea of celebrity and in thrall to the cult of a doomed self-destructive genius. In...
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. ...