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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, usually referred to as Caravaggio after his birthplace near Milan, is one of the most important artists in the history of Western art. From his early teens into his twenties he was trained in Milan as an apprentice in a painter’s studio. He traveled to Rome in the early 1590’s to enter the studio of a more prominent painter. He lived a brief and dramatic life, and his work was sometimes shocking to the people of his time. Caravaggio was considered a rebel against convention, both in his art and in his behavior. In May 1605 he was seized for misuse of arms. In 1606, he had to leave Rome after killing a man over a wager on a tennis match. In terror of the consequences of his act