caravaggio

     

Michelangelo Merisi a Caravaggio (September 28, 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he was the first great representative.

Trivia about caravaggio

  • Manfredi, Saraceni, & other followers of this artist were known as the Caravaggisti
  • Seen here, the "Supper at Emmaus" is a work by this painter who killed a man and fled Rome in 1606
  • It's his late-16th-century handiwork, seen here