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Caravaggio was an Italian baroque painter who was the best exemplar of naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. ...
Originally named Michelangelo Merisi, Caravaggio was born September 28, 1573, in the Lombardy hill town of Caravaggio, from which his professional name is derived. ... Among his best-known early works are genre paintings (scenes from everyday life) with young men - for example, The Musicians (1591? ...
Caravaggios 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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