A brilliant painter, tragic and violent, Caravaggio created a revolutionary work for his time that forever upset the formal parameters of painting and artistic taste. The work of Michelangelo Merigi (1573-1610), called Caravaggio, was a stirring in Italian painting - and by European extension - of the seventeenth century. His special treatment of light, with accentuated chiaroscuro (tenebrism), and his extreme naturalism (no other master recognized than nature) left a deep mark on many painters of his time and marked the painting of the Baroque. Caravaggio's turbulent and turbulent temper created a lot of trouble for him, and he took him to jail several times and had to constantly flee from his pursuers, to end up dying, alone and distressed, on a beach in southern Italy. Written in 1672 by Giovan Pietro Bellori (author well regarded by Schlosser and Panofsky), this biography of Caravaggio is a classic text of artistic historiography that is read almost like an adventure story.