# Cardinal del Monte’s patronage in mid-1590s Rome is a completed household-and-market heading that made early pictures public

Date: 1595

## The fact

Britannica and Met Heilbrunn print Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte as the documented protector after [Caravaggio](/people/caravaggio)’s Roman arrival (c. 1592–95), with early genre and still-life pictures entering elite rooms. Shared work with Minniti as companion-model remains named. Later museum doors are not 1595.

It is one event.

## Context

This is knowledge-and-market access, not a parish. Arrival year is handbook, not a recovered inn register.

Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Lived 1571–1610. Patrons, chapel rectors, the Order of St John, and later museum pages share the file. Legal incidents are stored as documented process, not as later legend. Ranuccio Tomassoni is not affiliated_with. Complex contribution is required except where the killing is direct.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Met Heilbrunn and Britannica independently describe del Monte patronage.

Official or archival record: Met Heilbrunn — Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) and His Followers (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm; Metropolitan Museum of Art).

## Significance

A completed cardinal-household patronage is a cultural-access path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: del Monte as named mid-1590s patron in standard lives. Not established: exact ISO arrival day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio.

They are not a public rating.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not treat a later palazzo ticket as this household. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.

## People

- Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-rome-del-monte-1595