The First Caravaggio in History?

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In the autumn of 1592, Caravaggio, a stranger and then a little gifted painter, arrived in Rome at barely 20 years old. Eight years later the Jubilee of 1600 was to be celebrated and the city, with about 2,000 artists and a population of 100,000 people, was preparing for the event. New churches were erected, old palaces were restored. But the complaints about the poverty of the painters are constant. Caravaggio, which is anything but an early pr…