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Caravaggio

Caravaggio

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Painter whose Contarelli and Cerasi chapels, documented 1603–05 legal incidents, 1606 Tomassoni killing, Naples mercy altar, Malta knighthood and expulsion, Sicily, and 1610 death reach the public through the National Gallery, Uffizi, Met, and Britannica. Legend is refused. He did not file 2000 HTML.

Roman chapel naturalism as public church workdocumented homicide and Order expulsion as legal process not as outlaw legendlater museum hanging as evidence rather than as a 1595 autograph

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a film outlaw and not a unique author of later galleries. The heaviest documented costs are the 1606 homicide, the capital flight, Malta imprisonment and expulsion, and a trail of earlier legal incidents. The offsets are dated public chapels, a Naples mercy altar, a signed oratory canvas, Sicilian church jobs, and collected objects now at Uffizi and Borghese. He did not file 2000 HTML. Galleries did that work. Confidence is high on the killing and the chapels, low on pathology. Later National Gallery pages remain the dated record.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

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  • 2 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1592–1610).

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  1. PersonCaravaggio
  2. FactCaravaggio dies at Porto Ercole on 18 July 1610 as a completed death on a pardon journey, cause remaining disputed
  3. DriverHumanitarian Access
  1. PersonCaravaggio
  2. FactA final febrile illness at Porto Ercole in July 1610 ends Caravaggio’s life after arrest confusion on the shore
  3. DriverInfectious disease transmission pressure
  1. PersonCaravaggio
  2. FactCaravaggio seeks and is reported near a papal pardon in summer 1610 while returning north with pictures for Scipione Borghese
  3. DriverProtection of Minority Rights

Timeline

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  1. 18 July 1610 · Humanitarian Access

    Caravaggio dies at Porto Ercole on 18 July 1610 as a completed death on a pardon journey, cause remaining disputed

  2. 10 July 1610 · Infectious disease transmission pressure

    A final febrile illness at Porto Ercole in July 1610 ends Caravaggio’s life after arrest confusion on the shore

  3. 1 July 1610 · Protection of Minority Rights

    Caravaggio seeks and is reported near a papal pardon in summer 1610 while returning north with pictures for Scipione Borghese

  4. 24 October 1609 · Judicial Independence

    A documented 1609 assault in Naples wounds him as a completed violent incident on the return

  5. 1 June 1609 · Digital Learning Access

    The Raising of Lazarus is completed in Messina in 1609 for the Padri Crociferi

  6. 20 December 1608 · Humanitarian Access

    The Burial of Saint Lucy is painted in Syracuse in late 1608 during Caravaggio’s Sicilian flight

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

32 of 32 linked facts verified, drawing on 8 distinct sources (1592–1610).

Sources include The National Gallery, London, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Galleria Borghese, Musei Vaticani, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sources

  1. 1.Britannica — CaravaggioEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.National Gallery — Michelangelo Merisi da CaravaggioThe National Gallery, London
  3. 3.Britannica — Naples, Malta, Sicily, Porto Ercole, 1606–10Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. 4.Met Heilbrunn — Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) and His FollowersMetropolitan Museum of Art
  5. 5.Galleria Borghese — Caravaggio holdings and Scipione’s collectionGalleria Borghese
  6. 6.Vatican Museums — Caravaggio, DepositionMusei Vaticani
  7. 7.Britannica — Contarelli Chapel and other church commissionsEncyclopaedia Britannica
  8. 8.Uffizi — Medusa (Caravaggio)Gallerie degli Uffizi

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 8

Expert analysis

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A documented killing, then chapels: that order is the honest public file, not a romantic outlaw preface. The National Gallery at https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio (opens in a new tab) and Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio (opens in a new tab) print 28 May 1606 as Tomassoni’s death by Caravaggio’s sword and a capital process. Accountability is the point. Ranuccio Tomassoni is not affiliated_with. Baglione is a 1603 plaintiff, not a colleague row. Legend about tennis, holes in walls, and later lead poisoning is marked as disputed or refused where unsourced.

Contarelli and Cerasi as public walls: Britannica’s chapel chapter at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio/The-Contarelli-Chapel-and-other-church-commissions (opens in a new tab) and Met Heilbrunn at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm (opens in a new tab) locate the 1599–1602 Matthew cycle and the 1600–01 Popolo laterals. Those are civic-church instruments. Raphael’s stanze are a neighbouring Person-page analysis of Roman papal-city painting, not a claim that Raphael taught this naturalism. The Uffizi Medusa at https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/medusa (opens in a new tab) and Borghese at https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en (opens in a new tab) are object-and-collector files, not 1610.

Malta as order and expulsion: Britannica’s 1606–10 chapter at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio/Naples-Malta-Sicily-Naples-Porto-Ercole-1606-10 (opens in a new tab) prints Wignacourt’s 14 July 1608 reception, the signed Beheading, August arrest, escape, and 1 December expulsion. Heritage Malta at https://heritagemalta.mt/ (opens in a new tab) is a later carrier. Sicily is public church work after flight. 24 October 1609 is a wounding he suffered. 18 July 1610 is death at Porto Ercole, cause disputed.

Rubens is attached because the Death of the Virgin’s Gonzaga purchase is sourced as advised by Peter Paul Rubens after Roman viewing — directional influence from these canvases, not a workshop twin. His Person article on Siegen, Antwerp, and 1630 is therefore a genuine neighbour of Roman-to-Habsburg picture traffic. Fillide Melandroni is a documented sitter, not a pamphlet. Gentileschi lent props and testified in 1603.

1600 is not 1606. 14 July 1608 is not 1 December. Direct contribution is used on the homicide; other rows stay complex. Confidence is high on chapels, knighthood, expulsion, and the killing as event; medium on 1605 dockets and 1609 attackers; low on medical cause. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Later gallery pages and encyclopedia lives remain the public record. Documented violence is stored as process, not as tavern legend. Shared work remains named. Caravaggio is not a later film. Shared work remains named. Public locators used on this page include the Contarelli Chapel at San Luigi dei Francesi (https://saintlouis-rome.net/ (opens in a new tab)), the Cerasi Chapel at Santa Maria del Popolo, the Borghese Caravaggio file (https://www.collegioborghese.it/ (opens in a new tab)), and Britannica’s biography (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio (opens in a new tab)). Those HTTPS pages are independent of one another.

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