Caravaggio Biography. Caravaggio, or Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the fathers of modern painting.
Synopsis Caravaggio was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy around 1571. He was orphaned at age 11 and apprenticed with a painter in Milan. He moved to Rome, where his work became popular for the tenebrism technique he used, which used shadow to emphasize lighter areas. Caravaggio - The complete works. Caravaggio. Michelangelo Merisi (or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571?
– 18 July? 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 (1595?) And 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting.[1][2][3] Caravaggio trained as a painter in Milan under Simone Peterzano who had himself trained under Titian.