Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 (1595?) and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting. About this artist See More