Michelangelo Merisi

May 29, 2018
On 29 May 1606, the great Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio killed Ranuccio Tommasoni in Rome.

September 12, 2016
A new Caravaggio: the Rediscovered Portrait of Prospero Farinacci Caravaggio’s early production as a portrait painter is still the subject of research and a fount of enigmas.

July 18, 2016
Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio probably died on this day in 1610, aged 38.18 July is taken as the date of his death on the basis of what a poet friend of the artist later reported, but the dramatic circumstances under which the event occurred have been shrouded in mystery ever since.