Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio1605
Madonna of Loreto (Madonna dei Pellegrini)
Two barefoot pilgrims — a mud-caked peasant and his wife — kneel at the Virgin's doorway in a Roman street. Sant'Agostino, Rome.
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About Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1571–1610 · Italian
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a Lombard painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily whose radical chiaroscuro and street-modeled saints reshaped European religious painting. Between the Contarelli Matthew cycle (1599–1602) and his final canvases sent from Naples in 1610, he produced roughly thirty canonical biblical works.