Nele scheelen caravaggio biography

Between and he was an apprentice in the Milan workshop of the painter Simone Peterzano who also came from Bergamo. From the sixteenth century Lombard painters he acquired his bent for naturalism and attention to detail. He was a restless spirit, and in spent a year in prison for a crime he never confessed. In he came under the protection of cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte who was his first important patron.

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Matthew and The Martyrdom of St. Matthew for the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. The following year he began The Conversion of St. Paul and The Crucifixion of St. Peter for the Cerasi chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, and then, in he completed the cycle in the Contarelli chapel with the second version of St. Mathew and the Angel.

His works were increasingly characterized by strong contrasts and intense dramatic tension. In the early years of the seventeenth century, while still in Rome, he painted The Sacrifice of Isaac and the Madonna with Pilgrims.