# Caravaggio 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 and Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio 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 and Met Heilbrunn at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm locate the 1599–1602 Matthew cycle and the 1600–01 Popolo laterals. Those are civic-church instruments. [Raphael](/people/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 and Borghese at https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en 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 prints Wignacourt’s 14 July 1608 reception, the signed Beheading, August arrest, escape, and 1 December expulsion. Heritage Malta at https://heritagemalta.mt/ is a later carrier. Naples’s Seven Works of Mercy is a charity-altar offset that does not rebate homicide. 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. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1595 del Monte; 1598 Medusa; 1600 Contarelli; 1601 Cerasi; 1603 libel; 1605 brawls; 1606 Death of the Virgin; 1606 Tomassoni; 1606 flight; 1606 Borghese collecting; 1607 Seven Works; 1608 knight; 1608 expulsion; 1608 Sicily; 1609 Naples assault; 1610 death. 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. Dated instruments, not later museum captions, are the public file. Shared work remains named. Public locators used on this page include the Contarelli Chapel at San Luigi dei Francesi (https://saintlouis-rome.net/), the Cerasi Chapel at Santa Maria del Popolo, the Borghese Caravaggio file (https://www.collegioborghese.it/), and Britannica’s biography (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio). Those HTTPS pages are independent of one another. ## Dated facts - Caravaggio dies at Porto Ercole on 18 July 1610 as a completed death on a pardon journey, cause remaining disputed. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-death-1610. Sources: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio. - A final febrile illness at Porto Ercole in July 1610 ends Caravaggio’s life after arrest confusion on the shore. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-fever-final-1610. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm. - Caravaggio seeks and is reported near a papal pardon in summer 1610 while returning north with pictures for Scipione Borghese. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-papal-pardon-1610. Sources: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio. - A documented 1609 assault in Naples wounds him as a completed violent incident on the return. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-naples-assault-1609. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio/Naples-Malta-Sicily-Naples-Porto-Ercole-1606-10, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio. - The Raising of Lazarus is completed in Messina in 1609 for the Padri Crociferi. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-raising-lazarus-1609. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm. - The Burial of Saint Lucy is painted in Syracuse in late 1608 during Caravaggio’s Sicilian flight. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-burial-lucy-1608. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm. - Sicilian commissions at Syracuse, Messina, and Palermo in 1608–09 are completed public altar-and-burial pictures after Malta. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-sicily-1608. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio/Naples-Malta-Sicily-Naples-Porto-Ercole-1606-10, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm. - The Order imprisons then expels him in late 1608 ‘as a foul and rotten member’ after a documented brawl. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-malta-expulsion-1608. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio/Naples-Malta-Sicily-Naples-Porto-Ercole-1606-10, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio. - The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is unveiled for Valletta’s co-cathedral in 1608 as Caravaggio’s largest signed Malta altarpiece. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-beheading-baptist-1608. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm. - Caravaggio is imprisoned on Malta in 1608 after assault on a senior knight, before escaping the island. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-malta-imprisonment-1608. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm. - Alof de Wignacourt receives Caravaggio as a Knight of Magistral Obedience on 14 July 1608 as a completed Order honour. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-malta-knight-1608. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio/Naples-Malta-Sicily-Naples-Porto-Ercole-1606-10, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio. - Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt is painted in 1608 as Caravaggio’s image of the Grand Master who admitted him to the Order. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-wignacourt-portrait-1608. 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/people/caravaggio