Caravaggio was an Italian baroque painter, who was the best exemplar of naturalistic painting in the early 17th century. His use of models from the lower classes of society in his early secular works and ... came to live suited his circumstances and his temperament. He was virtually without means, and his inclinations were always toward anarchy and against tradition. These five years were an anguishing period of instability and humiliation. Caravaggio was "needy and stripped of everything" and moved from one unsatisfactory employment to another, working as an assistant to painters of much s...

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