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please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. It's hard to name any other artist whose life was so

scandalous as that of Caravaggio's. We've spoken a bit about Michelangelo Marisi to Caravaggio,

known simply to many of us as Caravaggio, in previous episodes

of the Art Curious podcast, and we've talked about him with good reason. The Italian painter

was revolutionary in his dramatic artistic style, but he also had a dark side. Caravaggio's

life was full of anger, lust, and violence. Many remember Karavaggio the artist for his

incredible naturalism, his stark use of lighting, and a fascination with the most dramatic

elements of a story, which he then translated seamlessly into paintings that are still greatly admired

today. Karavaggio, the man, on the other hand, has been remembered as violent, boastful,

and angry, often carrying personal weapons without a permit, and it comes as little surprise then

that Caravaggio, in a heated brawl, killed a man in 1606 and was forced to flee his home of Rome.

His days in exile would not last long, though, as Caravaggio

died just a few years later in 1610. But people have sometimes commented on the strange nature

of Caravaggio's death, leading to a big question, fittingly dramatic, for such a dramatic artist

and man.

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