"Every painting is a still life if you wait long enough."
- Lived
- 1571 – 1610
- Born
- Milan, Italy
- Movement
- Early Baroque · Tenebrism
- Known for
- Radical chiaroscuro and unflinching realism
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted saints as street people and lit them like actors under a single lamp. His tenebrism — deep shadow pierced by hard directional light — turned altarpieces into psychological dramas. Violent, brilliant, and permanently in trouble with the law, he fled Rome in 1606 after killing a man in a duel and spent his last years painting on the run through Naples, Malta and Sicily. He died at 38 on a beach, chasing a papal pardon that had already been granted.
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