Caravaggio

“I’m not a painter bully, as I call it, but a brave painter, that is: who can paint well and imitate natural things well.” Caravaggio This is manifested before the court hearing the first complaint, among many, to disrupt public order. Never stopped growing its list of victims with minor injuries or serious in duels they engaged. The influential friends, who interceded to free him from prison, made up a much smaller list. With all the promises and betrayals of its turbulent nature, the Caravaggio made and unmade as easily: a moment of brilliance, apart from a fiery, a belated aggression. 
Were sacrilegious words in Rome of his time, for which there were neither straightforward nor a pure color. The city attracted by the great patron, the pageantry of the papal court, the artistic past. But now Caravaggio spit in classical statues and stated he had nothing to learn from them. Do not you more interested to Rome buried for ever, that the Renaissance tried to resurrect the myth of the heroic man. Preferred the common humanity but on the fairs and taverns: fruit vendors, street musicians, gypsies and prostitutes. 

In making that humanity as a moDel closer to Leonardo Da Vince, for whom painting was a way to speculate the nature of the Michelangelo or Raphael, an art lovers of epic and monumental. “Inventor” of still life, at least in Italy, makes a Caravaggio naturalism diametrically opposed to the Mannerist style of the late sixteenth century. It introduces a revolutionary treatment of light with prism that breaks down and uses geometrical components of a framework, lesson exploited later by a Rembrandt or a Vermeer, and taken to extremes by the cubism of Paul Cézanne. Passing therefore brief but blazing through the skies of the painting, and flash that illuminates everything before becoming extinct. 
The font, he gets the illustrious name of Michelangelo Meris family, resident in the parish of San Giorgio, near the Palace Bianca Di Caravaggio. It was a small village in Lombardy, whose name later adopted. The father had the profession of maestro of house - equivalent to “master works” – and was glad when he entered the eleven year old boy in the studio of Simone Peterson. It was the best way to get rid of pesky who did not want to help in construction and constantly running away from school to fight in the street or Shire in the field.