Caravaggio

as they are… I don’t know any painter who considers Giovanni Baglione a good painter.”

Almost all the painters I mentioned above are friends of mine, but they are not all good. By ‘good’ I mean sometimes having a good mastery of his art and by ‘good painter’ I mean a man who can paint well and knows well how to imitate the things of Nature. Good artists are those who understand painting, they will consider as good painters those I have judged as good and bad [as those I have judged as bad] but bad and ignorant painters will judge as good those who are as ignorant

Michelangelo Merisi abandoned traditional orientations, opened a new way and initiated a movement that would span several centuries and have an impact abroad to finally find recognition with the arrival of Rembrandt’s work.

Any distortion of facts, events, and personalities due to mythology, legends, illusion, or the simple exaggeration in which an impetuous human being indulges, was rejected by him and mocked, cast off or sent back to its real dimension.

If he sometimes portrayed a female sinner, he has always draped her arms and chest with a heavy shirt.

Indeed, throughout his life, the painter often chose a delicate representation of femininity which offered him great possibilities aesthetically, while it seems that in reality he preferred partners of his own sex, as attested in one of his best works, Amor Victorious, in which the tyrannical character of love is symbolised in an exalted manner.

1610: Departs for Rome to obtain his papal pardon. A messenger from Rome informs the court of Urbino about the death of the painter.

In December he is expelled from the Order of Malta.

Knighthood of the Order

Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Order, and to finally be pardoned.