Caravaggio Research Paper

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Caravaggio I choose Caravaggio because he is a very interesting person. He was a famous Italian painter and was considered one of the fathers of modern art. He killed a man in a bar fight and fled to Rome. When he arrived in Rome he was poor and very needy. Then he turned out to be a famous painter. Caravaggio was born in 1521 and grew up in Milan. He died on July 18, 1610. He died later because he was sick. He grew up in an orphanage at the age 11. He never got married and never had any children. He started painting when he entered Rome and was influenced to paint more when Cardinal De Monte welcomed him into the court. He was inspired by no one he met a group of painters and a swordsman and then went back to Milan. He didn’t train with