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The Baroque artist who pioneered tenebrism was also the first to depict biblical characters as contemporary figures, warts and all.

The painter’s life ‘in extremis’ and the questions over his sexuality explain the public’s attraction to the Lombard genius

His innovative artistic talent made him famous, but his quick temper led him to an early grave

Because of his tumultuous, Netflix-ready life story and the groundbreaking nature of his art, Caravaggio is one of those marquee names in art history like Rembrandt, Monet or Picasso.

James Baresel,The Epoch Times

Except among some specialist art historians, Simone Peterzano is generally known only as the teacher of Caravaggio: the ...

Both artists were named after the archangel Michael, who cast out the rebel spirits from Heaven. Michelangelo typified the archangel’s immaculate tendency, a model for all artists to follow. Caravaggio tended to the saint’s violent strain, a virtuosic painter, but no angel.