4/4 Who Killed Caravaggio ? - Secret Lives of the Artists 

I sincerely thank you for uploading this documentary. It enlightened me a lot.

I love the way he brings glimpses of his own personality into it, taking the shoes off and walking along the stones, haha, i don't know why he did that, and then having the beer by the fire at the beach which i get. Maybe Caravaggio was being chased and he ended up off the beaten track and that's just where those guys caught up with him...Great documentary 10 out 10, i like this guy.

Great documentary. The most common reason for not finding an entry in the Death Register of a Church lies in the fact that such registers are notoriously incomplete - less than 25% of my Italian ancestors names are found in Death Registers. Entry in a Death Register was not a prerequisite to have a Christian burial. My own experience of 30 years of research in such records has shown that Death Registers in Italian Churches contain less than half the number of entries when compared with Baptismal registers and that the vast number of recorded entries are for persons that were members of the congregation whose baptism occurred in that particular Church. There are other reasons for no record being found as well. It was also a common practice in the 16th & 17th centuries to only note a persons death in the Church's Baptismal Registers with a cross and the date of death in a column next to the Baptism entry. If there was no entry in the Baptismal Register, there was no notation of death either as a separate Death Register was not maintained.

well made and presented Andrew Graham Dixon excellent

Caraviaggio was according to Wikipedia very famous in his lifetime then only got rediscovered at the beginning of the 2oth century, incidently that apparently also applied to the Mona lisa I find Caraviaggio s realism astonishing,Rembrandt s also, and they ve grasped lighting better than any other painter ,ever, the two of them But I FIND CARAVIAGGIO MORE THAN UNUSUAL IN THAT HE S SOOO MUCH MORE FORCEFUL AND DRAMATIC in every troke and its location ,every light beam , he actually reminds a bit of modern comic strip designers , only of course muchmore nuanced and genius like in his strokes but the basic dramatising temperament is definetely there-

benissimo! for all time. Appreciation

Great documentary

great art..

When you think of it in comparison, We know a million times more about him than most people living at that time or since. In fact it seems as he was like one of us, except for one incredible thing. He was one of the greatest painters.

Grazie mille!

Human remains found in a church in Porto Ercole in 2010 are believed to almost certainly belong to Caravaggio. The findings come after a year-long investigation using DNA, carbon dating and other analyses. Initial tests suggested Caravaggio might have died of lead poisoning - paints used at the time contained high amounts of lead salts, and Caravaggio is known to have indulged in violent behavior, as caused by lead poisoning. Later tests suggested he died as the result of a wound sustained in a brawl in Naples, specifically from sepsis. Recently released Vatican documents (2002) also indicate that fatal wounds may have been sustained as a result of a vendetta, perpetrated after Caravaggio had murdered a love rival in a botched attempt at castration.

All the good news is in the paintings and the art. Never meet the artist, it is reported they seldom live up to expectation, compared to the art they are able to create. As a footsteps tour once trod documentary, all very interesting and entertaining. Caravagio on the run like some sort of Jason Borne character without brushes, dodging and painting at the same time, with whole of Italian top table looking to end him. For me the thing of interest is how did Caravagio assemble materials and the time to do art. Caravagio a genius.

"Caravaggio must have roped in external help to organise his dare-devil escape from Fort St Angelo, where he had been imprisoned, Keith Sciberras, lecturer at the Art Unit, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Malta said. "If not directly in helping him climb down the walls of St Angelo, he must have been assisted in speedily finding a boat that could take him secretly out of the island. "I do not believe that Caravggaio was detained in the famous rock-cut `guva` of St Angelo. He was held somewhere else. This makes his flight less dramatic, less spectacular. "There is no evidence that can directly point accusing fingers at those who helped him. Some scholars hold that Caravaggio was helped by the Grand Master himself, or by the General Fabritio Sforza Colonna."

"On the second floor of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, the elegant Sala degli Stucchi (“Hall of Stuccoes”) hosts the jewel of the permanent collection of the Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Naples: we are speaking of the Martirio di Sant’Orsola (“The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”), Caravaggio’s last work, which depicts the defining moment in the slaying of Ursula, transfixed by an arrow shot by the king to whom she had refused to give herself."

Why the prist that is suppost to write Caeavaggio dead was in jail and how come there was not a subtitude?

people just die in mysterious non nefarious ways, particularly people as chaotic as Caravaggio. People who have multiple enemies who'd like to kill them, and are rebellious, often get murdered. we will never know which happened or what happened.

I find it extremely difficult to understand how an artist who had such great technical skill and was such a sensitive interpreter of religious literature, and such a master of complex symbolism, could also be a tavern brawler, a violent man, a murderer, sexually promiscuous, a habitue of taverns and brothels. The enormously sensitive and accomplished artist and the street thug just don’t match. How coud one man be both of these things? Many talented, accomplished artists had their moral failings, as indeed all of us do. But only Caravaggio, and perhaps Francois Villon, were outright gangsters and career criminals. I am utterly baffled. It is as if Caravaggio were quite literally Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--two different men in one body.

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He purchased his birth name to enter the guild.

Today when a mans morality seems to determine whether we should celebrate his art galleries may starting removing his paintings. I hope not

Peter Robb??? His book on Caravaggio is rubbish. The Knights of Malta did not attack Caravaggio in Naples. The Knights let Caravaggio escape from the impossible-to-escape-from Maltese prison because the Grand Master didn't want to get into an argument with the Pope (whose son, Cardinal Scipione was C's biggest patron). C. then spent time working in Sicily where tonnes of Knights of Malta were wandering around, and nobody harmed him. There's more to it, should you want to read many of the better biographies than Peter Robb's. On a nicer note, Robb's "Midnight in Sicily" is excellent.

I think it was his demon who was after him and killed him.

Caravaggio was a strait gangster. always imagined these guys to be a little feminist. more like a outlaw biker who paints!

Actually, the ciaroscuro (darkness and highlight) in his paintings is due to his use of a camera obscura. Such lens technology had already been around a while before his time. It is known that other artists were accustomed to using it. He was not that special an artist. Certainly, he wasn't a bad painter, but neither would I place him among the greats. Rembrandt was by far his superior.