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            Michelangelo Merisi, called later Caravaggio, was born in either Milan, or a town of Caravaggio near Milan, as the son of a ducal architect. His early training started in 1584 under Simone Peterzano, a little known pupil of Titian, and continued till 1588.
            In 1592, Caravaggio went to Rome. His contact with Giuseppe Cesare d’Arpino (1568-1640), the most popular painter and art dealer in Rome at the turn of the century, brought him recognition.  Through the art business Caravaggio met his first patron Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, who not only held out the possibility of working independently, but also secured for him his first public commission: side paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi. Continued...

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	Boy Peeling a Fruit. c.1593-1594. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Rome, Italy.
	Self-Portrait as Sick Bacchus. c.1593-1594. Oil on canvas. Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy. More.
	Boy Bitten by a Lizard. c.1593-1594. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London, UK.
	Boy with a Basket of Fruit. c.1593-1594. Oil on canvas. Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
	Penitent Magdalene. c.1593-1594. Oil on canvas. Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy. More.
	The Cardsharps (I Bari). c.1594-1595. Oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
	The Musicians. c.1595. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
	The Lute-Player. c.1595-1596. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. c.1595. Oil on canvas. Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy. More.
	St. Francis in Ecstasy. c.1596. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA. More.
	Bacchus. c.1597. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. More.
	Narcissus. c.1597. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy. More.
	Medusa. c.1598. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. More.
	The Fortune-Teller. c.1598-1599. Oil on canvas. The Louvre, Paris, France.
	The Conversion of Mary Magdalen. c.1598-1599. Oil on canvas. Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, IL, USA. More.
	The Sacrifice of Isaac. 1598-1599. Oil on canvas. Johnson Collection, Princeton, NJ, USA. More.
	Portrait of Maffeo Barberini. c. 1598-1600. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Florence, Italy. More.
	St. Catherine of Alexandria. c.1599. Oil on canvas. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland. More.
	Judith Beheading Holofernes. c.1599. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy. More.
	Interior of Contarelli Chapel. San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy.
	The Martyrdom of St. Matthew. 1599-1600. Oil on canvas. San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy. More.
	The Calling of St. Matthew. 1599-1600. Oil on canvas. San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy. More.
	St. Matthew and the Angel. 1603. Oil on canvas. San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy. More.
	Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. c.1599-1600. Oil on plaster. Villa Ludovisi, Rome, Italy. More.
	Ecce Homo. c.1600. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, Italy. More.
	The Conversion of St. Paul. 1600-1601. Oil on canvas. Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy. More.
	The Crucifixion of St. Peter. 1600-1601. Oil on canvas. Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy. More.
	Supper at Emmaus. 1601. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London, UK. More.
	Still Life with a Basket of Fruit. c.1601. Oil on canvas. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy.
	Cupid. c.1601. Oil on canvas. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. More.