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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1592 and 1610. His paintings which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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Caravaggio trained as a painter in Milan before moving in his twenties to Rome, where he lived and worked for serval years, creating a considerable name for himself as an artist and as a violent, touchy and provocative man, until a brawl led to a death sentence for murder and forced him to flee to Naples.

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Only about 50 of Caravaggio’s paintings can be seen in their original condition. All Caravaggio paintings have a dark background. Caravaggio sometimes placed his own image in his paintings.  He was the face of Goliath in his painting David with the head of Goliath.
Caravaggio and some of his famous paintings can be seen on the front and back of old Italian Lire banknotes.  Caravaggio only signed one of his paintings, La Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist.

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Caravaggio advanced the realist, humanistic style of painting that the later Renaissance perfected. His Baccus is not portrayed as a perfect saint but rather as a drunken teenager with dirty fingers in front of a bowl of half-rotten fruit. The rotten fruit is thought to be a symbol of the transience of life. The Bacchus figure, portrayed by Caravaggio as a dissolute youth, illustrates the artist’s interest in naturalism.

Bacchus is a fine example of Caravaggio’s early work. Part portrait, part allegory, and part still life, centuries later it still rouses debate and captures the viewer’s imagination.

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Bacchus is a painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is held in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

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Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio, painted in 1599-1602. The window Judith first charms the Assyrian general Holofernes, then decapitates him in his tent.

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The Calling of St Matthew is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicting the moment at which Jesus Christ inspires Matthew to follow him.

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Caravaggio's "David with the Head of Goliath," in Rome

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Caravaggio's "David with the Head of Goliath," in Rome

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Caravaggio's Saint Jerome: possibly the artist's desperate request for a pardon

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Caravaggio's Saint Jerome: possibly the artist's desperate request for a pardon