Michelangelo Merisi, universally known as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter. Trained in Milan and active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610, Caravaggio acquired great international fame in life and immediately after his death, constituting the current of Caravaggism and exerting a strong influence on Baroque painting of the seventeenth century , but was then forgotten until the critical rediscovery in the twentieth century, and is now considered one of the most famous representatives of Western art of all time.
