Fellow artists weren’t the only ones who had a problem with Ross. In fact, his mentor Alexander wasn’t happy for Ross’ success. Alexander accused Ross of betraying him, telling The New York Times, “I invented ‘wet on wet.’ I trained him and he is copying me—what bothers me is...
While no one knows exactly what happened, possible explanations for his death have included syphilis, an infected sword wound and lead poisoning from paint. Fittingly, one of the first people to write a biography about him after his death was none other than Baglione, the man Caravaggio had ...