Caravaggio biography book

Father to the Baroque movement, indispensable to the Renaissance, and best painter in Rome, are but a few descriptions linked to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. One of the essential traits that Caravaggio was known for, during his own time and in recent years, was his models: his realistic captures within his paintings, his relationship with them and the controversial reference between model and the painted person.

Controversy or not, Caravaggio was and will remain a significant role in the field of painting.

Caravaggio was one of, if not the first, to begin working with models. This was easily seen in his paintings as his life-like representations set him apart from all his predecessor masters.

Caravaggio biography book pdf

It began at an early age of twenty-one, with young Mario Minniti, who was sixteen, his friend, fellow artist, and perhaps apprentice. Minniti was the model for many of Caravaggio’s paintings between the years 1592 and 1600.

The first was Boy Bitten by a Lizard, which later raises questio