Caravaggio. From his simple humble beginnings in his paintings of genre scenes still-lifes and using himself or his roommate as a model to his meteoric rise to. Like Pulini Sgarbi suspected the painting was a Caravaggio.
Paul or The Conversion of Saul Transcript. Caravaggio makes Mary a very mortal mother helping her son to crush a snake underfoot. Caravaggio was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy in 1571.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was probably the most revolutionary artist of his time for he abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists who had idealized both the human and religious experience.
In 1576 the family moved to Caravaggio to escape a plague which ravaged Milan. Annunciation 1608 - by Caravaggio. Caravaggio byname of Michelangelo Merisi born September 29 1571 Milan or Caravaggio Italydied July 1819 1610 Porto Ercole Tuscany leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious works. Caravaggio was a controversial and influential Italian artist.
