Caravaggio biography video for kids

He worked in Rome , Naples , Malta and Sicily between and He was a painter who did a type of art called Baroque style. He was the first person to be really good at painting this way. Even while he was alive, many people talked about Caravaggio. Some people liked to see what he did, and how he lived, and thought he was a good person.

Other people thought he was very strange.

Possibly the most revolutionary artist of his time, the Italian painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists before him.

Some people thought he was bad. He did not want to fit in, sometimes. He started being a famous painter in Rome in Many people gave him money to paint pictures for them, but he used all his money and sometimes got into trouble. In someone wrote a note about him, and said that he was rude and a bad person.

Possibly the most revolutionary artist of his time, the Italian painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists before him.

This note tells us how he lived, in In he killed a young man in a fight and ran away from Rome. He ran away because Rome said it would give money to people who caught Caravaggio. In Malta in he got into a fight again. He got into another fight in Naples in , but this fight could have been enemies people who hated him trying to kill him. In , after making paintings for more than ten years, he died.