Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
DRAMATIC LIGHTING
His technique is still used today
1.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan, 28 September 1571 - Porto Ercole, 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610.
2.Representative the Baroque school, of which he is considered the first great representative.��3.Enigmatic, fascinating, rebellious and dangerous.
4.Had tons of patrons(gave him $)... but handled it atrociously.
5."after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him."
6. In 1606 he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head.
7. In Malta in 1608 he was involved in another brawl, and yet another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies.
8. His self-portrait as Goliath's severed head, held by David his executioner, was sent to the papal court in 1610 as a kind of painted petition for pardon. In fact pardon was granted, but did not reach Caravaggio before he died in Porto Ercole.
DAVID WITH THE HEAD OF GOLIATH
CARAVAGGIO
Year c.1610
�Medium Oil on canvas
�Dimensions 125 cm × 101 cm (49 in × 40 in)
�Location Galleria Borghese
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