Originally named Michelangelo Merisi, Caravaggio was born September 28, 1573, in the Lombardy hill town of Caravaggio, from which his professional name is derived. ... There he spent several months executing such works as the Flagellation of Christ (San Domenico Maggiore, Naples), which were crucial to the development of naturalism among the artists of that city. ... These works were among Caravaggio's last, for the artist died on the beach at Port"Ercole in Tuscany on July 18, 1610, of a fever contracted after a mistake arrest. ... Despite his personal protestations that nature was his o...

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