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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life. He began his apprenticeship in Milan in 1584, and during the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state,…
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culture · Italian painter (1571–1610) · painter · also Caravaggio, A. Caravaggio, Amerighi Caravaggio, Amerighi Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Averigi of Carravaggio, Carage
Born 29 September 1571 · Died 18 July 1610 · Q42207
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Michelangelo Merisi, son of Fermo di Caravaggio – in painting not equal to a painter, but to Nature itself – died in Port' Ercole – betaking himself hither from Naples – returning to Rome – 15th calend of August – In the year of our Lord 1610 – He lived thirty-six years nine months and twenty days – Marzio Milesi, Jurisconsult – Dedicated this to a friend of extraordinary genius.
The forty-eight color plates in this book include almost all of the surviving works accepted by every Caravaggio expert as autograph, and even the least demanding would add fewer than a dozen more
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“Michelangelo Merisi, son of Fermo di Caravaggio – in painting not equal to a painter, but to Nature itself – died in Port' Ercole – betaking himself hither from Naples – returning to Rome – 15th calend of August – In the year of our Lord 1610 – He lived thirty-six years nine months and twenty days – Marzio Milesi, Jurisconsult – Dedicated this to a friend of extraordinary genius.”
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Concluded he died as the result of a wound sustained in a brawl in Naples, specifically from sepsis caused by Staphylococcus aureus
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Archaeologists conducted a year-long investigation of remains found in three crypts and, after using DNA, carbon dating and other methods, declared that they believe with a high degree of confidence that they have identi
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And recovered in 2010, is believed by some experts to be a contemporary copy
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Authenticated and restored; it had been in storage in Hampton Court, mislabeled as a copy
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Support the theory that the wealthy Tomassoni family had him hunted down and killed as a vendetta for Caravaggio's murder of gangster Ranuccio Tomassoni, in a botched attempt at castration after a duel over the affection
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“The forty-eight color plates in this book include almost all of the surviving works accepted by every Caravaggio expert as autograph, and even the least demanding would add fewer than a dozen more”
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Though black and white photographs of the work exist
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Died 1610-07-18.
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Born 1571-09-29.
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