Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio
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Recent research on the biography of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio or Caravaggio in the town where supposedly appropriate, advance their date of birth in late 1571 and move this place home to Milan. In fact, until the appearance of relevant documents, there were various events to commemorate the fourth centenary of the painter taking into account that he was born on September 28, 1573. A date that follows two funerary inscriptions dedicated to Caravaggio by lawyers Marzio Milesi, preserved in a manuscript of the Vatican Library. Both inscriptions say that the painter lived thirty-six years, nine months and twenty days, and who died on July 18, 1610. Since not found in the parish registers no entry that refers to the birth or baptism of Michelangelo Merisi, was taken as the date written by Marzio Milesi, Latino jurist sections of illustrious names composed by different hobby and later documents seem to indicate that I was not very good in arithmetic when calculating the years of the painter. The first document file that advances the birth of Caravaggio to the end of 1571 was discovered by Mia Cinotti and Mario Fara Puggioni. It is a land deed of sale signed by the artist in 1589, which claims to have 18 years. Dato endorsed by two letters found later: the marriage certificate of parents, kept in the church of Caravaggio, a town of origin of the painter's mother, dated January 14, 1571, together with a text that shows that the second son marriage, the younger brother of the painter, called Giovan Battista, born in Milan on November 21, 1572. 
addition to the date of birth, documentary research also reach meaningful conclusions in regard to their place of origin. always thought he was born in the town of Caravaggio because it is known by this name as a painter. In fact, his family came from this town in Lombardy, which have land and where the artist lives, surely, throughout his childhood before and after the death of his father, when he finished his apprenticeship in Milan and until they sell all their property to go to Rome. Only the fact that his father, Fermo Merisi, displayed domiciled continuously since 1563 in Milan and were baptized here all their children also suggests that Michelangelo Merisi was born in the Lombard capital. This fact can not be verified at present because in 1906 disappeared under mysterious circumstances Caravaggio parish register for the period 1569-1589 which was to appear with the date and place of birth. Although one scholar has Sicilian painter was able to verify the accuracy of these data before its demise. By
Rome without family ties and parishes in notarial ground that his father, Fermo Merisi, was "magister", ie a constructor or master builder. In fact, the family has nicknamed >, an ancient Lombard voice that can refer to this office. It also specifies one of the early biographers of the painter, Giulio Mancini, who in 1619 said that "the father was more
dome and architect of the Marquis of Caravaggio, a small child Marquis in Lombardy, near Bergamo. Even the pin
tor Giovanni Baglione, who personally met Caravaggio and prompted a lawsuit against him, confirms that "the son of a teacher who
< Vantas buildings with great art." It means, therefore, a bourgeois birth for the pinto r, son of a professional, who also owned land. Nothing of a bohemian ent Nacim : life admired by the Romantics will follow. 
Fermo Merisi die in 1577 because of the great plague which had a similar the previous year. His second wife, Lucia Aratori,
also perish few years later took over custody of their four children: Michelangelo, Giovan Battista, Giovan Pietro, who died when still a child, and Caterina.
Michelangelo Merisi seems to have a vocation as a painter from an early age, as in 1584, ie when they had little Amente thirteen, enters as an apprentice in the workshop of a pinto r Milan, which was formed in Venice, called Simone Peterzano
. A painter "mediocre", as Rudolf Wittkower, but in the Milan of those years is known to be a disciple of Titian. The contract between the teacher and Caravaggio is carried on medieval lines. Peterzano undertakes to take with him the boy, in his workshop as a stay at home for four years to teach grou everything you need to become a painter able to establish their own . is known some four years Caravaggio's happening in Milan. A chronicler an tigua states "studied with application (...), but occasionally do some extravagance, because the warmth of his spirit exaggerated." Bellori notes that the painter could make a trip to Venice motivated by "some disagreements" that had been involved. Mancini even alludes to a murder that could cost you a year in jail, apostille by Giovanni Baglione phrase "for having killed his companion fled the country (...) and put the shelter in Rome." Are all data for many biographers do not prove the veracity of the facts stated. The
I do know is that between 1589 and 1591 the family sold several land Merisi Caravaggio and one of them states that he sees nta is made to pay debts
by the mother or the children. The phrase "per dictum vel Michaelem Angelum" suggests that specifically refer to the debts of the painter. In 1592 the three brothers Merisi goods are distributed they are, Michelangelo is quick to cash the little touches, probably thinking about his trip to Rome and never again saw his brothers. This is evidenced by an episode that occurs years later. Caravaggio denied having a brother in front of own Giovan Battista, when she travels to Rome because he wants a priest. 
begins his work in Rome known
Until his arrival in Rome was not aware of any work of Caravaggio. Workshops begins in more or less industrial as the home of Monsignor Pandolfo Pucci, who in return for their hospitality will require copies of religious paintings, as Mancini explains, "what is worse, the night came with a salad q ue served as an appetizer, meal and dessert (...) so she called his patron Archbishop
Salad. " Then live with a painter named Lorenzo, who pays the artist a fat by each portrait or head of a saint. Will then be installed with Antiveduto of Grammar, creator of images to sell in stores and that will become imitator of Caravaggio.
The young Michelangelo takes a step forward in his career when accepted for eight months at the house of one of the most active Mannerist Rome, Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino. The fame of this young artist, only three years older than him, leads to Pope Clement VIII to grant him knighthood. He is the author, for example, the medallions of the dome of San Pe dro or decoration of the Hall of the Horatii the Capitol. Caravaggio enters his workshop as >, as a boy, and specializes in painting garlands of flowers and fruits.
Cesari Living with the final end when Caravaggio ing <
cerned in Consolata Hospital because of an injury caused by a horse kick. In fact, the Cavaliere d'Arpino not visit the artist in every month to remain hospitalized, a sign of the enmity that both painters lavished thereafter. The fact is that, while hospitalized, a monk helps Caravaggio and buys small works among which are some self-portraits. 
then staying at someone's house call Asdrubale and then where Bishop Fantin Patrignani. Run and l year 1595 and two friends will help introduce you to a more select. One is Prospero Orsi, the genre known for decorative
> in which he excelled and whose brother, Lelio Orsi, being one of the most famous poets of Mannerism, introduced the "new style of Michele" in the intellectual circles of Rome. The second friend is an art dealer, Valentino, who has a place in the immediate mediation of the church of St. Louis of the French, near where he lives Caravaggio's first patron, Cardinal Francesco del Mt. < income of Caravaggio in the circles of the prelate takes place between late 1595 and early 1596. Del Monte sensual cutting organizes meetings where performances are mystical and lyrical familiar with the language of myth and religion. But also belonging to the upper echelons Vatica
nas, serves to support the artist in the bid for public works orders.
In 1599 obtained the first public commission desired by every artist arrived in Rome. This is the Chapel of San Luis Contareli of the French that the Cavaliere d'Arpino left unfinished. After a series of lawsuits, Caravaggio painted two canvases side missing: Vocation and the Martyrdom of St. Matthew (left). Both have to redo them because their interpretation raises controversy, such c
omo happen in many other subsequent occasions. Normally religious paintings of Caravaggio, anti-classical and strongly anti-academic, will arouse indignant reactions and the time will become the highest paid in Rome. Since 1600, Caravaggio left his residence at the home of Cardinal Del M
onte, while evidence that its "very prone to fights and disturbances," according to Mancini. After wounding Stampa Gerolamo di Montepulciano, it happens a long list of altercations with the guards of the order, misuse of weapons possession, skirmishes, riots and labeling processes such as the painter and biographer starts Baglione against Caravaggio and three friends were in 1603. All these events require the patron of the artist to get out of jail on more than one occasion and encourage you decide irs Caravaggio ea the town of Tolentino from 25 October to 8 January 1604 and later to Genoa in July 1605. Returns to Rome after three weeks, when his supporters settled a process in which he is accused of injuring the clerk Pasqualone d'accu because of a woman named Elena. Upon his return, his tumultuous life follows the same course until the year 1606 committed a murder that will make you permanently flee Rome. 
dramatic Escape
On 29 May 1606, the Caravaggio played on a team of four
a ball game Campo Marzio. The game degenerates into a brawl, the eight players come to blows Tomassoni Ranuccio and Caravaggio and paddle in a duel. Michelangenlo, moderately wounded in the head, kills his opponent and had to flee Rome. From now until the end of his days Caravaggio's friends try to get his papal pardon, while the painter must constantly develop their career to escape justice. Find temporary asylum Ruffeti Andrea's house, near the Piazza Colonna. He explains to a clerk of the criminal injuries is in the throat and left ear has made with his own sword to fall on the street. Remains under house arrest and ordered to pay a fine, although a newsletter, dated May 31, ends the narration of this event saying that the artist is missing. Could it be that someone influential would have prevented the condemnation of Caravaggio.
Anyway, that day the agent of the Duke of Modena, Fabio Masetti, wrote that Caravaggio had fled and headed to Florence. Indeed, Caravaggio had left Rome, but its course were the Sabine Mountains, going to Palestrina. From there the painter commands to bring some of his unfinished work to complete them while awaiting the papal pardon. Masetti writes in his letters that his case does not seem desperate
ado because the crime was not premeditated and the painter had also been injured. There are scholars who set the date on which Caravaggio moved to Naples in late 1606 or early 1607, due to the amount of work done in the city. The uniqueness of the artist was quickly recognized, especially by younger generations.
His later years
The fact that he negotiated the acquisition of Virgen del Rosario through painter's agents, suggests that in September , 1607 Caravaggio abandoned Naples. In Malta, the famous painter is presented to Grand Master Wignacourt Alof member of l
to French nobility for having two portraits. Its success will enter the Order of Malta and was named >. However, once again, getting into trouble again. In this case jailed for fighting with a Cavaliere of Giusticia. Still do not know well as he could escape from Castel Sant'Angelo, but the fact is he got it in a barge that takes as its direction Sicily. To Order this constitutes a crime of the utmost gravity and December 1 Caravaggio is "kicked and set apart as a member of the rotten and fetid Order and Society. " 
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In Sicily continues to paint while moving from city to city, Syracuse, Messina, Palermo, to avoid falling into hands of many members of the Order of Malta. finally decides to head to Naples where he painted Salome with the head of St. John (above) for the Grand Master, probably in order to appease the wrath of the Order. It may not be of any use . On October 24, 1609 a notice published in Rome says that "the famous artist" Caravaggio was dead or disfigured in Naples. They have more detail and Baglione Bellori the artist was so savagely stabbed in the face by his enemies that was almost unrecognizable. Recovered from these injuries continues to paint in Naples, until in June 1610 decided to sail for Rome. He is convinced that he will receive the papal pardon, but has not yet been able to find out if someone confirmed to the artist that His Holiness would meet their expectations as stated in a notice dated July 31, 1610. The fact is that during the trip there is a new and fatal incident. Bellori account that the English guard arrested Caravaggio because it confused with another Cavaliere. We are landing somewhere near
the village Port'Ercole, on the promontory of Monte Argentario, where part of the coastline under the jurisdiction of the English Viceroy in Naples. When authorities realize their er 
ror, released by Caravaggio, but his boat has left without him. Without any of their belongings, the artist decided to walk along the coast, infected with malaria to the 30's. The fever will end his life on the beach with no one known Port'Ercole around. Baglione says "died had lived evil as evil." In fact, the news of his death reached Rome days later and is not known at what place he was buried. We only know that the Viceroy Spain wrote to the customs to give the order to locate the property of the famous painter, because I wanted a picture of San Juan is English custody. A Roma got two reminders, 28 and July 31, 1610. The first says: "We have received news of the death of Michelangelo da Caravaggio, famous painter, eminent in the art of color and painting from life as a result of disease Port'Ercole."
by Milko A. García Torres
addition to the date of birth, documentary research also reach meaningful conclusions in regard to their place of origin. always thought he was born in the town of Caravaggio because it is known by this name as a painter. In fact, his family came from this town in Lombardy, which have land and where the artist lives, surely, throughout his childhood before and after the death of his father, when he finished his apprenticeship in Milan and until they sell all their property to go to Rome. Only the fact that his father, Fermo Merisi, displayed domiciled continuously since 1563 in Milan and were baptized here all their children also suggests that Michelangelo Merisi was born in the Lombard capital. This fact can not be verified at present because in 1906 disappeared under mysterious circumstances Caravaggio parish register for the period 1569-1589 which was to appear with the date and place of birth. Although one scholar has Sicilian painter was able to verify the accuracy of these data before its demise. By 
Rome without family ties and parishes in notarial ground that his father, Fermo Merisi, was "magister", ie a constructor or master builder. In fact, the family has nicknamed >, an ancient Lombard voice that can refer to this office. It also specifies one of the early biographers of the painter, Giulio Mancini, who in 1619 said that "the father was more dome and architect of the Marquis of Caravaggio, a small child Marquis in Lombardy, near Bergamo. Even the pin
tor Giovanni Baglione, who personally met Caravaggio and prompted a lawsuit against him, confirms that "the son of a teacher who
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Michelangelo Merisi
. A painter "mediocre", as Rudolf Wittkower, but in the Milan of those years is known to be a disciple of Titian. The contract between the teacher and Caravaggio is carried on medieval lines. Peterzano undertakes to take with him the boy, in his workshop as a stay at home for four years to teach
Until his arrival in Rome was not aware of any work of Caravaggio. Workshops begins in more or less industrial as the home of Monsignor Pandolfo Pucci, who in return for their hospitality will require copies of religious paintings, as Mancini explains, "what is worse, the night came with a salad q ue
then staying at someone's house call Asdrubale and then where Bishop Fantin Patrignani. Run and > in which he excelled and whose brother, Lelio Orsi, being one of the most famous poets of Mannerism, introduced the "new style of Michele" in the intellectual circles of Rome. The second friend is an art dealer, Valentino, who has a place in the immediate
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