Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was born in Milan in 1571. He trained with the painter Simone Peterzano in Milan, where he became acquainted with two different art traditions: Lombardy realism and Veneto Renaissance. He saw the latter when Peterzano took him with him on a journey to Venice, where he became acquainted with Tintoretto’s art.
He moved to Rome at the age of twenty, working first with Lorenzo Siciliano, then Antiveduto Gramatica and then Cavalier d’Arpino.
