SHORT HISTORY
OF ART
 (PAINTING)

Michelangelo Merisi (Michael Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio ( 29 September 1571 in Milan – 18 July? 1610) was anItalian 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.