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| Caravaggio |
Caravaggio was born September 28, 1573, in the Lombardy hill town of Caravaggio, from which his professional name is derived. Originally he was named Michelangelo Merisi. He spent four years as apprentice to Simone Peterzano in Milan before going to Rome in 1593, where he was employed by the Mannerist painter Giuseppe Cesari for whom he executed fruit and flower pieces. Among his best-known early works are genre paintings with young men, made for his first important patron, Cardinal Francesco del Monte. Caravaggio's mature manner commenced about 1600 with the commission to decorate the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome with three scenes of the life of Saint Matthew. About 1601, Caravaggio received his second major commission, from Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome for a Conversion of Saint Paul and Crucifixion of Saint Peter.
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