> Where [Michelangelo] was responding to esoteric Renaissance Christian Neoplatonism...Caravaggio turned his eye to the forgotten and the outcast. In his canvas

> Where [Michelangelo] was responding to esoteric Renaissance Christian Neoplatonism...Caravaggio turned his eye to the forgotten and the outcast. In his canvases, Andrew Graham-Dixon observes, “Christ and his followers looked a lot more like beggars than cardinals.” And he practiced what he preached! > Caravaggio beat nobleman Girolamo Stampa da Montepulciano, a guest of the cardinal, with a club, resulting in an official complaint to the police https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#Legal_problems_and_flight_from_Rome_(1606) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#Legal_problems_and_...