Caravaggio self-portrait
Full name: Michelangelo Merrissi da Caravaggio
Italian: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
September 29, 1571-July 18, 1610
Italian painter
He was active in Rome, Naples, Genoa, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610
Artistic Career:
In 1584 he began to be exposed to works of art and spent 4 years as an apprentice under the Milanese painter Simon Pietrozano, who was said to be a student of Titian.
Boy with a Basket of Fruit
In mid-1592, Caravaggio arrived in Rome. The Boy Who Cuts the Fruit (the earliest known painting), the Boy Holding the Fruit Basket and The Young Bacchus in Illness, as well as a self-portrait painted during his recovery from a serious illness, all three show the precision of physics (a side of Caravaggio's realism), and thus he became famous.
In January 1594, Caravaggio was determined to go his own way, and he left Cesarius.
Martyrdom of Saint Matthew
In 1599, presumably under the influence of Del Monte, Caravaggio received a contract for the decoration of the Church of Kentario in the Church of San Luigi di Francis. The commission consisted of two works, the Martyrdom of St. Matthew and The Call of St. Matthew, which caused an immediate sensation when completed in 1600.
Saint Matthew and the Angel
On May 29, 1606, he killed a young man named Ranujo Tomassoni. He fled to Naples, which was outside the jurisdiction of the Roman authorities. Under the protection of the Colonna family, rome's most famous painter also became the most famous painter in Naples.
At the end of August 1608 he was arrested and imprisoned. By December, he had been expelled from the Order as "an abominable degenerate member".
After 9 months in Sicily, Caravaggio returned to Naples.
In the summer of 1610, Caravaggio sailed north to receive a pardon, which seemed to be attributed to his powerful Roman friends. On this trip he brought with him the last three paintings of gifts to Cardinal Hipione. What happened next was a lot of opinions, and there was no consensus. Unabashedly, an anonymous private news posted from Rome to the ducal residence in Urbino on 28 July said Caravaggio was dead. Three days later another private news said he died of fever. These were the earliest death briefings, which were later reported in more detail. But no body has been found. A poet friend of Caravaggio made July 18 his death day, and recently researchers claimed to have found a teaser that revealed caravaggio dying of fever that day in port ElCole, near Grossetu in the Tuscany region.
Medusa, in Uffizi
Caravaggio paintings are in the Galleria Poseiger in Rome, Italy, and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Bacchus
Still Life with Flowers, vegetables and Fruit (school)
Fortune Teller