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Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (28 September 1571 - 18 July 1610)

Caravaggio's early education in Lombardy gave him a passion for realism and a dislike of idealization; later, in Rome, he would recover that these were revolutionary concepts. The models chosen for saints and supplicants in his religious pictures were revolutionary concepts. The models chosen for saints and supplicants in his religious pictures were genuine peasants with rags, wrinkles and dirty feet. Not surprisingly, this upset orthodox patrons and members of the public alike, who preferred the contrived elegance of mannerism to Caravaggio's down-to-earth observation.

Caravaggio himself very much admired Michaelangelo Buonarroti and paid homage to him several times. The angel's hands in The Inspiration of St. Matthew, painted for the Contarelli Chapel, recalls God's Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling; and in St. John the Baptist (Youth with Ram), the boy poses exactly like one of the ignudi, also on the Sistine ceiling.

He combined a short, wild, occasionally criminal life with an iconoclastic attitude. His influence lived on in the studios of the Gentileschi family, particularly that of the remarkably talented Artemisia Gentileschi. Caravaggio's works continue to resonate, specifically with film-makers such as Pasolini, Jarman and Bertolucci.

He died of malarial fever in Porte Escole in 1610.

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Caravaggio \| The Cardsharps, c.1594 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| The Taking of Christ, 1602 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| The Seven Works of Mercy, 1607 AUD 199.00
Caravaggio \| The Musicians, c.1595 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, 1602 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| The Incredulty of Saint Thomas, 1601-02 AUD 199.00
Caravaggio \| The Conversation of Saint Paul, 1600-01 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| The Calling of Saint Matthew, c. 1599-1600, Oil on canvas,Contareli Chapel,Rome AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Supper at Emaus, c.1600-01 AUD 199.00
Caravaggio \| St Francis in Ecstasy, c.1595 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1597 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Medusa, 1597 AUD 199.00
Caravaggio \| Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598-99 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Death of the Virgin, 1601-06 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Crucifixion of St.Peter, 1601, AUD 199.00
Caravaggio \| Boy with a Basket of fruit, c.1593 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Boy Bitten by a Lizard, 1594-96 AUD 199.00	Caravaggio \| Basket of Fruit, c.1599 AUD 199.00
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